PeerJ announces PeerJ Collection for SMBE 2017 attendees to make their abstracts publicly available - June 26, 2017
PeerJ will be publishing a PeerJ Collection for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2017) in Austin, TX. The meeting will take place from July 2–6, 2017. All speakers and poster presenters are encouraged to submit their accepted abstracts… Read More
OCLC celebrates 50 years of innovation and collaboration with libraries worldwide - June 26, 2017
OCLC, the library technology and research organisation that changed the way libraries work, is celebrating 50 years of innovation and collaboration with libraries around the world. On July 6, 1967, the non-profit Ohio College Library Center was established to create a shared electronic library for… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 26, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle (Microsoft Academic is on the verge of becoming a bibliometric superpower); Roy Kaufman (Can you Trust It? Using Open Access Materials in the Corporate World); Ramya Sriram (How Academia Can Use the Power… Read More
The Association of American Publishers welcomes judgment against ‘Sci-Hub’ pirate site - June 23, 2017
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) welcomes the June 21, 2017 ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York regarding the wilful infringement of scores of scholarly articles protected by copyright law. Ruling in favour of Elsevier, the publisher that… Read More
Collaboration essential for the future of the academic book, reveals Academic Book of the Future report - June 23, 2017
Two major new reports demonstrate that the future of the academic book is at a crossroads with the number of new book proposals growing rapidly but sales per title continuing to fall. Researchers on the Academic Book of the Future project are recommending that academics and publishers work together to… Read More
Four Thomson Reuters solutions named finalists for SIIA CODiE Awards - June 23, 2017
Thomson Reuters has announced that four of its products are finalists for the 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognising product excellence for over 30… Read More
