OCUL releases web-based version of the OCUL Accessibly Information Toolkit for Libraries - July 20, 2015
The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) has released a web-based version of the OCUL Accessibly Information Toolkit for Libraries, previously available only as a PDF. Anyone interested in making Ontario's academic libraries and institutions more inclusive can now more easily browse, search, and consult this… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 20, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Discriminating Between Them); Heidi Laine (The case against the journal article: The age of publisher authority is going, going, gone - and we’ll be just fine); Dalmeet Singh Chawla (How should… Read More
Major repository networks agree to collaborate on data exchange, technological development, and metadata - July 17, 2015
Three major regional open access repository networks and aggregators (OpenAire, LA Referencia, and SHARE), along with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Center for Open Science (COS) met in Charlottesville, Virginia, to discuss synergies and potential areas of collaboration on July 9 and 10,… Read More
SAGE launches new OA journal – Journal of International Life Sciences Research - July 17, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has launched the Journal of International Life Sciences Research (JILSR), a new open access (OA) journal dedicated to the rapid publication of high-quality articles in the form of life sciences research and review papers. As a companion to the Journal of International… Read More
CHUC partners with Plum Analytics for real-time research metrics - July 17, 2015
The Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra/Coimbra Hospital and University Centre (CHUC) in Portugal is the first hospital in southern Europe to implement PlumX, a research metrics tool from Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company. CHUC is using PlumX to measure and analyze the impact of its… Read More
The Society for General Microbiology announces full launch of its new journal- Microbial Genomics - July 17, 2015
The Society for General Microbiology has announced the full launch of Microbial Genomics (MGen), the Society's first fully open access journal that incorporates an open data policy. MGen publishes peer-reviewed articles that use genomic approaches to further our understanding of microbiology. The Society is waiving all… Read More
