Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 27, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Rethinking Authentication, Revamping the Business); Joseph Esposito (Libraries May Have Gotten the Privacy Thing All Wrong); Hrynaszkiewicz (Progress on pragmatic sharing of clinical data); Julia Himmrich (How should academics interact with policy makers? Lessons on building a… Read More
Semantic Web journal gets its first Impact Factor - June 24, 2016
IOS Press, an independent international publisher of English-language scientific, technical and medical (STM) journals and books, has announced the first Impact Factor for its Semantic Web journal. According to the 2015 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) released by Thomson Reuters © 2016, the newcomer enters the… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert announces Fall 2016 launch of new peer-reviewed open access journal, Health Equity - June 24, 2016
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced the launch of Health Equity, a new peer-reviewed open access journal that will address the urgent need for authoritative information about health disparities and health equity among vulnerable populations. Content will range from translational research to prevention, diagnosis, treatment,… Read More
Alma Open Platform reaches one million API transactions daily - June 24, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that its Alma library management service now routinely handles over one million API transactions daily from hundreds of institutions around the world. Over the last two years, Ex Libris has created more than 120 Alma REST APIs in… Read More
EBSCO Discovery Service and EBSCOhost users can now visualize altmetrics from Plum Analytics - June 24, 2016
EBSCO Information Services has announced that the overall research experience for users of EBSCO Discovery Service™ and EBSCOhost® databases is improving with the addition of altmetrics data from Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company. By integrating the Plum Print widget into these platforms, users will have a… Read More
ProQuest expands number of titles available through Access-to-Own to almost 400,000 titles - June 24, 2016
ProQuest has announced that it has grown the number of titles available through Access-to-Own to almost 400,000 and dramatically increased publisher participation in just eight months with its latest acquisition model launching next month. ProQuest developed Access-to-Own in collaboration with libraries and publishers around the world… Read More
