The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter in deal to publish open access books - January 25, 2013
Research organisation Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80 individual Max Planck institutes working… Read More
Pensoft Publishers integrate journal platform with OpenAIRE - January 25, 2013
Academic publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the integration of its editorial management platform (Pensoft Journal System) with its OpenAIRE harvesting mechanism. The integration will ensure that articles funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7) can automatically be tracked by OpenAIRE to make them even… Read More
Michael Panzer named Editor-in-Chief of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system - January 25, 2013
Library information provider OCLC, US, has named Michael Panzer, formerly Assistant Editor, as the 10th Editor-in-Chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Panzer is the first DDC Editor-in-Chief from outside the US. He replaces Joan S. Mitchell, who has retired after serving with distinction in… Read More
ARL releases pre-publication version of an article on The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012 - January 24, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a pre-publication version of an article on 'The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012,' which will be featured in the forthcoming Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282 (Spring 2013). In this article, authors Karla Strieb and Julia Blixrud… Read More
Jisc Collections, Open Access Key to launch UK Gold OA article payments pilot - January 24, 2013
Jisc Collections, the UK academic community's shared service for content licensing and administration, has entered into an agreement with Open Access Key (OAK), an online payment platform for open access (OA) publishing, to run a 12 month pilot project, Jisc APC. The pilot will test the… Read More
BioMed Central launches a new journal Cancer & Metabolism - January 24, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of a new journal Cancer & Metabolism with a selection of articles that highlight the altered metabolic pathways that drive cancer. The launch issue of the journal includes pioneering research that for the first time observes… Read More
