ProQuest offers archival copies to institutions for digitisation projects - April 15, 2013
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it is offering archival copies to institutions from their digitisation projects. The aim is to help universities to build robust institutional repositories (IRs) by sharing digital copies of their graduate works which have been converted from… Read More
SciELO preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive - April 15, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with SciELO to preserve their ejournals and ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a… Read More
Complete ‘College & Research Libraries’ archives made freely available online - April 15, 2013
The full archive of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)'s official scholarly research journal, College & Research Libraries (C&RL), is now available for free. The move is seen as part of the association's commitment to scholarly publishing and open access. The online C&RL… Read More
New OCLC Library Spotlight program to increase online visibility for libraries - April 15, 2013
Library information provider OCLC, US, has announced that libraries can now increase their visibility on the Web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program - a free service that works with popular Web services to promote libraries. Yelp, the popular local directory… Read More
Nanomedicine publishes special issue on regenerative medicine and tissue engineering - April 15, 2013
Nanomedicine, the international peer-reviewed monthly journal published by Future Medicine Ltd, has published a special focus issue on the topic 'Advanced nanobiomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.' Guest edited by leading researchers in the field from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, the special issue contains cutting-edge… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 15, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Disruption Ain’t What It Used to Be); Joe Wikert (The future of educational publishing); Andrew M. Seaman (Many medical journals lack ghostwriting policies); David Crotty (Stick to Your Ribs: Going Legit: The Difficult Path from Piracy to Partnership);… Read More
