Qatar National Library signs agreement with Springer for eBooks and journals - November 5, 2013
STM publisher Springer and the Qatar National Library (QNL) have signed a groundbreaking agreement for access to eBooks and electronic journals on Springer's platform SpringerLink. The national license entitles Qatar to use one of the largest scientific, technical and medical eBook collections in the world. … Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 4, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Should the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) Stop Using PMC As Its Publishing Platform?); Joe Wikert (Byliner and the art of curation); Bonnie Swoger (You can’t read just one: Reproducibility and multiple sources); Joseph Esposito (A… Read More
Onsite and virtual registration for NFAIS workshop ‘Open Access to Published Research: Current Status and Future Directions’ now open - November 4, 2013
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a one-day workshop on November 22, 2013. This workshop will take a look at the current state of open access to published research and the significant social, financial, technical and legislative forces that are driving it.… Read More
ACS Publications expands open access publishing options - November 4, 2013
Scientific journal publisher ACS Publications, a Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has announced a far-reaching expansion of its open access publishing options - including a major new open access journal, more licensing choices for authors and a stimulus program to support authors who… Read More
Russia’s International Biotechnology Center Generium in deal with Elsevier to gain access to ScienceDirect and Embase - November 4, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Russia's International Biotechnology Center (IBC) Generium, has signed an agreement to grant access to ScienceDirect and Embase for its scientists. Access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text platform for scientific, technical and medical research literature and Embase, a comprehensive… Read More
National Library of Sweden to index Swedish National Bibliography in Serials Solutions’ Summon discovery service - November 4, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with the National Library of Sweden to index the Swedish National Bibliography in the Summon discovery service. With the inclusion of the Swedish National Bibliographic Database in the Summon index, researchers will now be able to discover references… Read More
