SAGE Publishing to publish Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery - April 17, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that it will publish the open access (OA) journal Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, the official journal of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association. Kenneth MC Cheung serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. With particular emphasis on… Read More
ProQuest and CALIS expand long-standing collaboration to bring Chinese scholarship to a global audience - April 17, 2017
ProQuest and China Academic Library Information System (CALIS), a consortium of Chinese higher education libraries, have expanded their long-standing collaboration and are now enabling unprecedented, global access to more than 270,000 dissertation abstracts from China’s premier universities. The records, captured in English, are available in the… Read More
Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch new, peer reviewed open-access journal – Food Quality and Safety - April 17, 2017
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal - Food Quality and Safety (FQS). The editors-in-chief, Dr. Kunsong Chen (Zhejiang University) and Dr. Mondher Bouzayen (French National Institute for Agricultural… Read More
Library and Archives Canada in deal to use OCLC WMS as its library services platform, to move catalogue to WorldCat - April 17, 2017
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has entered into an agreement with OCLC to use OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library services platform and move its National Union Catalogue to WorldCat. These moves are designed to make Canada's documentary heritage more widely accessible and available to… Read More
ORCID announces road show series in the US and Europe - April 17, 2017
ORCID is starting its 2017 US road show series in Chicago in April, followed by a series of European workshops in May. These events bring together the cross-sector ORCID community and provide an opportunity to share stories, technology and outreach approaches, and meet directly with ORCID… Read More
Lauren Pressley elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect - April 17, 2017
Lauren Pressley, director of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Library and associate dean of UW Libraries, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect following the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and assume the presidency in July 2018 for a one-year term. … Read More
