Marinda Li Wu becomes 2013 President of the American Chemical Society - February 11, 2013
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the appointment of Marinda Li Wu as the 2013 president of the society. She is the first Asian American and the eighth woman to serve as president in the Society's 137-year history. As part of her presidential theme,… Read More
ARL to be one of ten host institutions for the inaugural National Digital Stewardship Residency programme - February 11, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that it has been selected as one of ten host institutions for the inaugural National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) programme, launched by the Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The NDSR programme… Read More
ALPSP submits response to BIS Select Committee inquiry on open access publishing - February 11, 2013
The UK's Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) is conducting a Select Committee inquiry into the government's open access (OA) policy. The ALPSP has submitted a response to the inquiry, which closed on February 7, 2013. The inquiry focuses on four main topics. The… Read More
Google to digitise books from Michigan State University Libraries - February 11, 2013
Books from the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries will soon be digitised by Google to become part of the Google Books website. Google Books has digitized millions of titles from university libraries and indexed the contents so users can search across the entire set. MSU's… Read More
SAGE set to publish The Economic and Labour Relations Review journal - February 11, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE and the University of New South Wales have announced an agreement to publish the journal The Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR) from March 2013. The Economic and Labour Relations Review is the official publication of the Centre for Applied Economic Research… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 11, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Why Were PubMed Central and eLife Discussing PeerJ?); Richard Van Noorden (Researchers opt to limit uses of open-access publications); Anthony Haynes (Scholarly publishing: why not co-operatives?); and Rick Anderson (When Sellers and Buyers Disagree — Edwin Mellen Press… Read More
