UNEP announces landmark initiative to digitise publications and official documents - October 14, 2013
The United Nation’s Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that its Division of Communication and Public Information (DCPI) recently launched a trailblazing new project to digitise the organisation's books, reference materials and other publications. The initiative - among the first of its kind in the UN… Read More
Sheridan announces sale of The Dingley Press - October 14, 2013
The Sheridan Group, a print, publishing services and technology provider to publishers of scholarly journals, magazines, books and catalogues, has entered into an agreement to sell its long-run catalogue business based at The Dingley Press in Lisbon, Maine. The Dingley Press will be sold to… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 14, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Seeking a Path toward Open Access for Books); Ernesto Priego (Predatory journals and defective peer review are general academic problems, not just open access problems); Kent Anderson (Link Miser — Why the NLM Links to PubMed Central Versions… Read More
Academic Libraries in England now able to access EBSCO eBooks - October 11, 2013
EBSCO eBooks™ from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has been chosen as an e-book supplier for higher education libraries in England. Members who participate in this joint consortia agreement will be able to select e-books from EBSCO's extensive collection including nearly 500,000 e-books and audiobooks. This agreement… Read More
Thieme Bookshelf app for Android now available - October 11, 2013
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced that the Thieme Bookshelf app is now available for download to Android devices via Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.impelsys.thieme.android.ebookstore&hl=en. Android users can choose from among hundreds of Thieme's e-books, quickly and easily downloading them to their… Read More
Two leading organisations implement ALMs using PLOS open source app - October 11, 2013
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that two leading organisations are implementing Article-Level Metrics (ALM) using the PLOS open source app. In 2009, PLOS became the first (and claims to remain the only) publisher to launch an open source Article-Level Metrics (ALM) app to… Read More
