Library Copyright Alliance files amici brief in Authors Guild v. Google - August 4, 2014
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) - the American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) – recently filed an amici brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Authors Guild v. Google in… Read More
Human Genome Variation database launches - August 4, 2014
Figshare, an online repository which enables researchers to securely host, will provide the technology to power the newly launched Human Genome Variation Database managed by Nature Publishing Group. The data accompanies Data Reports (a new article type) published in the open… Read More
Elsevier announces availability of first edition of Non-Operating Room Anesthesia - August 4, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of the first edition of Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA), which focuses on the growing national trend to perform more procedures outside of the traditional hospital operating room. This trend has led many anesthesiology departments to reconfigure protocols, and NORA… Read More
Michael Eismann named Editor-in-Chief of ‘Optical Engineering’ journal - August 4, 2014
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the appointment of Michael Eismann of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory as Editor-in-Chief of Optical Engineering, effective August 1. The journal is published by SPIE. Optical Engineering publishes papers reporting on research and development… Read More
Swets adds OpenAthens to its portfolio of Access Management services for libraries - August 4, 2014
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has signed a reseller agreement with Eduserv, the non-profit dedicated to developing and delivering technology services for the public sector. This agreement sees Swets adding the OpenAthens advanced access management system to its portfolio of Access Management services for libraries. … Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 4, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (How science can beat the flawed metric that rules it); Martin Paul Eve, Stephen Curry and Alma Swan (Open access: are effective measures to put UK research online under threat?); Paul Jump (Open access papers ‘gain more traffic… Read More
