Ukrainian authors and writers criticise new state open access initiative - July 29, 2015
Ukrainian writers and authors are reportedly on the verge of massive protests, due to a recent initiative of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) to conduct digitalisation and online publishing of all of the books and documents stored in the national archives and libraries. According to an official spokesman of… Read More
Deep Web Technologies announces major upgrade to next-generation search technology, Explorit Everywhere! - July 29, 2015
Federated search solutions provider Deep Web Technologies (DWT) has announced a major upgrade to Explorit Everywhere! next-generation search technology. Explorit Everywhere! searches internal, subscription and public Deep Web sources simultaneously for relevant results, helping organisations improve their research efficiency and ultimately driving down research costs. … Read More
Australian National University chosen as new host of the World Wide Web Consortium Australia Office - July 29, 2015
The Australian National University (ANU) is set to play a significant role in guiding the future of the Web after being chosen as the new host of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Australia Office. The W3C is an international consortium of over 400 member organisations… Read More
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to bring FASTR Act up for mark-up on July 29 - July 28, 2015
After a month of intense conversations and negotiations, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) will bring the 'Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act' up for mark-up on July 29, 2015. The language that will be considered is an amended version… Read More
Elsevier and ADSA announce winners of the fifth annual Journal of Dairy Science Most-Cited Awards - July 28, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and the American Dairy Science Association have announced the winners of the fifth annual Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) Most-Cited Awards. Papers published in JDS throughout 2012 were eligible and citations from date of publication until April 15, 2015 were taken into consideration.… Read More
BMJ partners with European Society for Medical Oncology to publish new OA oncology journal - July 28, 2015
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has announced a partnership with the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), with the aim of publishing a new open access cancer journal - ESMO Open - from next year. ESMO has over 10,000 members from over 130 countries, working… Read More
