Coalition opposes copyright term extension in Trans-Pacific partnership agreement - July 14, 2014
On July 9, 2014, ARL joined 34 other organisations in sending a letter to ministers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating parties, expressing opposition to the copyright term of life plus 70 years proposed by the United States. These organisations - representing libraries, archives, authors, educators,… Read More
Bookbuilders of Boston announces new awards event to honour excellence in the new publishing and information economy - July 14, 2014
Bookbuilders of Boston, a non-profit professional group that serves the needs of New Englanders working in the publishing industry, has announced a new awards event to honour excellence in the new publishing and information economy. Based on an embrace of disruption and the need to… Read More
Mandy Hill appointed as new Managing Director, Academic Publishing for Cambridge University Press - July 14, 2014
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced the appointment of Mandy Hill as the new Managing Director of Academic Publishing. She will take up the new post in September. She succeeds Richard Fisher, who will be leaving in December after 30 years at the Press. … Read More
OCLC Research awarded ALCTS Presidential Citation for ‘Understanding the Collective Collection’ - July 14, 2014
OCLC Research has been awarded the Presidential Citation of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services for outstanding service to ALCTS in the report, 'Understanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print Collections.' OCLC Vice President, Research,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 14, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Angela Cochran (Implementing CHORUS: Big Decisions Loom for Publishers); Joe Wikert (Why econtent prices will erode even further); Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (What lesson do rising retraction rates hold for peer review?); Kim Holmberg (Altmetrics may be able to help in evaluating… Read More
Cloud Connect Summit expands Interop New York Conference to focus on cloud-enabled enterprise - July 14, 2014
Cloud Connect, produced by UBM Tech, will present Cloud Connect Summit alongside Interop New York this fall, broadening the conference's cloud content offering. As a full conference, Cloud Connect Summit will focus on how enterprises can leverage the cloud's abundance of resources… Read More
