Amazon Web Services unveils High Storage instances for data intensive applications - December 24, 2012
US-based Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced High Storage instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family optimised for applications requiring fast access to large amounts of data. These new instances provide customers with 35 EC2 Compute Units (ECUs)… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 24, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (How Much of the Literature Goes Uncited?); Mike Taylor (What does it cost to publish a Gold Open Access article?); Cameron Neylon (Science publishing: Open access must enable open use); and Joseph Esposito (The Slow But Steady March… Read More
Dear Subscribers - December 24, 2012
This is to inform you that the number of articles carried in the newsletter will be fewer than usual, as business activity during this period (Dec 25 – Jan 1, 2012) is relatively low. Also, please note that there will be no newsletter dispatch on Dec 26th and Jan 2nd.… Read More
Stichting Bibliotheek.nl selects Serials Solutions to provide new interface for library catalogue - December 21, 2012
Stichting Bibliotheek.nl (BNL), the national foundation for public libraries in the Netherlands, has selected ProQuest business Serials Solutions to adapt AquaBrowser as an additional custom end-user interface to BNL's new national catalogue (NBC) for print, digital and electronic collections. Based on a single unified index,… Read More
World Allergy Organization’s official journal moves to BioMed Central’s OA publishing platform - December 21, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the World Allergy Organization Journal (WAO Journal), the official journal of the World Allergy Organization (WAO), is moving to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. The journal will join the publisher's growing open access allergy portfolio. … Read More
New organisation Rubriq offers standardised peer review scorecard process - December 21, 2012
Rubriq, a new for-benefit organisation, has been formed to address the challenges of the peer review system for scientific publishing, and to recover lost hours from redundant reviews so they can be put back into research. In the current journal submission process, rejection is common, yet… Read More
