New OA journal from the American Geophysical Union and Wiley publishes first articles - December 9, 2013
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and publisher Wiley have announced that Earth's Future, a new open access journal, has published its first group of articles. Created to reflect the risks and opportunities associated with environmental changes and challenges, the journal features primary research across disciplines… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health’ Customer Support team receives certification as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal for the fourth time - December 9, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that its Customer Support organisation for its Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins businesses received certification for the fourth time as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal, the global leader in support center benchmarking. The Technical Services team… Read More
Library Community encourages FCC to make materials accessible via FDsys - December 9, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently joined others in the library community in a letter requesting that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) make its primary legal materials and publicly available comments accessible via the Government Printing Office (GPO) Federal Digital System, FDsys. The… Read More
Wellcome Library signs up for new OA pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched - December 9, 2013
The Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. … Read More
UMass Amherst Libraries join HathiTrust partnership - December 9, 2013
The UMass Amherst Libraries has become one of the newest partners of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. As… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 9, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Tip of the Iceberg - How the Illusion of Products Can Mislead Customers About the Realities of Business); Stevan Harnad (“Nudging” researchers toward Gold Open Access will delay the shift to wider access of research); Joseph Esposito (How… Read More
