Metapress unveils the Essential platform to support small publishers - October 15, 2012
MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced the Metapress Essential platform to support smaller publishers. This new platform allows small publishers to receive the same features that enable large publishers to launch an online presence and manage content. The Essential platform is part… Read More
LCA welcomes court decision in favour of HathiTrust library using digitised works - October 15, 2012
The US' Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) has welcomed Judge Harold Baer's decision saying that the HathiTrust Digital Library's (HDL) use of digitised works is a fair use permitted under the Copyright Act. Baer's ruling not only allows HathiTrust to continue serving scholars and the print disabled,… Read More
SAGE Open Engineering opens for submissions - October 15, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that its journal SAGE Open Engineering is now open for submissions. Building on SAGE's expanding portfolio in engineering, SAGE Open Engineering is a new Open Access journal aimed specifically at engineers. Overseen by a world leading Advisory Board Chaired by… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 15, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (The Google/AAP Settlement: Less Than Meets the Eye?); David Phipps (Knowledge mobilisation is a social process: Social media can support individuals and organisations in research dissemination); Joseph Esposito (Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive?); Joe Wikert (Gamechangers: Two… Read More
Wolters Kluwer presenting latest online and mobile innovations at 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair - October 12, 2012
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer, US, is presenting its latest online and mobile solutions to international audiences visiting the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. Wolters Kluwer will introduce the latest company innovations in mobile applications, software solutions, online platforms, and e-book publishing to customers, authors, partners, and… Read More
Serials Solutions and Hyweb Technology agreement enables discovery of Taiwanese journal content - October 12, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has signed an agreement with Hyweb Technology to enable the discovery of its Chinese journal content from the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata for Hyweb's more than 900 journals represents 90 percent of Taiwanese journals published. Researchers will… Read More
