NASIG selects Shannon Regan for 2013 Horizon Award - May 14, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO, US, has announced that Shannon Regan, licensed content librarian at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., has been awarded the 2013 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Horizon Award. The award, sponsored by EBSCO, recognises a promising new information professional. It covers the… Read More
Corrigendum - May 14, 2013
This is with reference to the news alert titled "OCLC launches CONTENTdm hosting services in Australia" covered in the News Section of Knowledgespeak (dated May 10, 2013). It may be noted that the company's software solution, "CONTENTdm," was wrongly mentioned as "CONTENT." The error is deeply regretted. The revised version… Read More
Audio Engineering Society content now discoverable via Serials Solutions Summon service - May 13, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with the Audio Engineering Society (AES) to make the rich collection of technical and scientific papers and reports from AES discoverable through the Summon service. The Society's publications span every aspect of audio, from psychoacoustics and amplifier design to… Read More
California OA bill clears state’s Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee - May 13, 2013
A bill that would require California-funded research to be deposited in open access repositories recently passed the state's Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee. The bill was the brainchild of California Council on Science & Tech Fellow Annabelle Kleist. Assemblyman Brian Nestande (R-Palm Desert) introduced the… Read More
BioMed Central and the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine partner to launch Journal of Intensive Care - May 13, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced a new partnership with The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, to launch a new journal titled Journal of Intensive Care. The Journal of Intensive Care is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care… Read More
IOP Publishing and NIMS announce new agreement for continued publication of STAM - May 13, 2013
IOP Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, has announced a new three year agreement with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) for the continued publication of the open access title Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). Beginning July 2013… Read More
