Access to Research initiative begins two year pilot - February 4, 2014
Students, independent researchers and small businesses can now access many of the world's best academic papers across science, technology, medicine and other disciplines through their local libraries. This is the result of a unique collaboration between librarians and publishers, who have made their journal content available for free to UK… Read More
Journal EvoDevo to publish embedded video files in article PDFs - February 4, 2014
Open access journal EvoDevo, published by BioMed Central, is now able to publish embedded video files in article PDFs. Readers can download and store the PDFs, enabling them to watch videos offline and in the optimal context alongside the rest of the manuscript. With the click… Read More
Anne Lemnitzer and Timothy C Siegel appointed new Co-Editors of DFI Journal: The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute - February 4, 2014
Academic publisher Maney Publishing and the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) have announced the appointment of Anne Lemnitzer and Timothy C Siegel as the new Co-Editors of DFI Journal: The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute. They will succeed lead editors Ali Porbaha and Dan Brown,… Read More
Elsevier announces new concept methods journal: MethodsX - February 4, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new concept methods journal: MethodsX. Researchers spend up to 80 percent of their time customizing and tweaking existing methods to make them better fit their specific research setting. By providing a home for these often unpublished records, MethodsX allows… Read More
ProQuest and OCLC continue collaboration to offer improved discovery, access to popular full-text content - February 4, 2014
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that more than 320 million records from 88 collections in the ProQuest Central database are now discoverable, and the full text associated with those records is now accessible to mutual subscribers through OCLC WorldCat Discovery Services. … Read More
The American Library Association to preserve Library Resources & Technical Services with Portico - February 4, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that the American Library Association will be preserving the e-journal Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), the research journal of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), with Portico. This will ensure that these… Read More
