OCLC and Elsevier partnership to ensure ScienceDirect holdings data kept up-to-date in WorldCat without library intervention - June 30, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and STM publisher Elsevier will work together to automate the process to keep e-book and e-journal holdings from ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text platform for research literature, up-to-date in WorldCat and library catalogues. The automated… Read More
Thieme makes scientific and research publications available via Research4Life - June 30, 2014
Medical and scientific publishing house Thieme Publishing Group is making its scientific publications freely accessible in developing countries by signing the latest version of the ‘Statements on Document Delivery’ issued by the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). Medical professionals around the… Read More
H.W. Wilson Foundation in deal with EBSCO to fund digitisation of the Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities - June 30, 2014
The H.W. Wilson Foundation has announced that it will fund the digitization of the print index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU) under a new agreement with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). EBSCO will digitise the content and build a free database… Read More
SAGE and the Society for Public Health Education launch new journal, Pedagogy in Health Promotion - June 30, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE and the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)have announced the launch of a new journal, Pedagogy in Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (PHP). PHP will publish its first issue in spring 2015. Published quarterly, PHP will address how teaching… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces support for UK Education Reform Summit - June 30, 2014
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced its support for the UK Education Reform Summit 2014. The summit, which will see senior members in education policy, business leaders and education specialists from around the world and the UK come together to discuss UK education reform, will… Read More
AIAA and CLOCKSS in deal to preserve AIAA publications - June 30, 2014
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has entered into a partnership with Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) to preserve its publications in case of catastrophe. The agreement guarantees that AIAA publications would be available to researchers and… Read More
