Frontier Economics’ new report outlines integral role of academic publishing in the UK - November 13, 2018
Frontier Economics has released an independent research that sets out publishing's contribution to the innovation cycle, incorporating existing research with stakeholder views. The report finds that without the highly specialised and time-intensive tasks carried out by UK academic publishers, innovation may be less effective. It also… Read More
Sheridan and Society for Scholarly Publishing partner to support membership growth through sponsorship of printed materials - November 13, 2018
Publishing services provider Sheridan has renewed its commitment to provide printing services for the Society for Scholarly Publishing's (SSP) membership and informational resources again for 2019. The materials will be printed in their Hanover, Pennsylvania facility which offers high-quality print production; offset,… Read More
CLOCKSS announces its TRAC re-certification - November 13, 2018
The CLOCKSS Archive, the long-term preservation service for scholarly content, has announced its TRAC re-certification by the Center for Research Libraries, based on an updated Trusted Repository Archiving Checklist audit. With grades on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), CLOCKSS maintained its score of… Read More
Portico to rebuild its preservation infrastructure - November 13, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico recently completed a two-year project to rebuild its preservation infrastructure from the ground up with the support of its publisher and library participants. This initiative helped create a stable, scalable, elastic architecture that will enable Portico to keep pace with the ever-increasing… Read More
SAGE Publishing to publish official journal of the American Epilepsy Society, Epilepsy Currents - November 9, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing will publish Epilepsy Currents beginning in 2019. The official journal of the American Epilepsy Society (AES), Epilepsy Currents is an open access journal that publishes commentaries on recent significant research published in major epilepsy and seizure disorder journals. Reaching an audience… Read More
ProQuest launches Idea Exchange, an online community for customer ideas - November 9, 2018
ProQuest has announced the launch of Idea Exchange, an online community enabling customers to shape the products and solutions they invest in and use every day. Librarians who use the OASIS® system or LibCentral®, the administrative portal for the Ebook Central® platform, now have a new… Read More
