Prof. David Maguire to succeed Prof. Martin Hall as Jisc chair - April 15, 2015
Professor David Maguire, vice-chancellor at the University of Greenwich, has been appointed into the role of Jisc chair. David is currently a Jisc trustee and in the past year has served as a member of the board of Jisc trustees, working alongside other senior leaders… Read More
SHARE unveils beta version of free notification service, SHARE Notify - April 15, 2015
SHARE has launched a public beta version of its free notification service, SHARE Notify, to make research more widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. Stakeholders in the research enterprise - funding agencies, institutions, and individual researchers - often find it challenging to keep track of new research… Read More
Cambridge University Press unveils new Open Access Monograph Publishing Service - April 15, 2015
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press is launching a new Open Access Monograph Publishing Service offering authors a way to publish their books via open access in a fairly priced way. This new service gives authors the option of publishing their work under the Gold Open… Read More
APA to publish Online Journal Behavioral Development Bulletin - April 15, 2015
The American Psychological Association has announced that it will begin publishing the online journal Behavioral Development Bulletin® in April. The biannual journal, previously published by Behavior Analyst Online, covers research in cognitive and emotional development, developmental theory, socialisation, education and speech-language pathology. Broadly focused on issues… Read More
Springer and Altmetric launch Bookmetrix, a new platform for book impact - April 14, 2015
STM publisher Springer has become the first publisher to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of their books via a new platform, Bookmetrix. Developed in partnership with metrics provider Altmetric, the data captured via Bookmetrix is displayed on the book pages on Springer’s content… Read More
The University of Minnesota Press and Columbia University Press to join OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online - April 14, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that The University of Minnesota Press will join University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) in August 2015. The Minnesota Scholarship Online (tentatively called MPSO) site will go live with 389 titles across a broad range of subject areas. … Read More
