ARL joins library groups to support lending rights - July 5, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has joined the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), who work collectively as the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), to file an amicus curiae brief (PDF) with the Supreme Court of the United States… Read More
Cambridge University Press set to publish Journal of British Studies - July 5, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, has announced that it will publish Journal of British Studies (JBS) on behalf of the North American Conference on British Studies from January 2013. The official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), the JBS has positioned… Read More
IFLA, other library groups express concern over TPPA stand on copyrights - July 5, 2012
Negotiators from nine countries are meeting on July 2-10 in San Diego to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The TPPA is a multilateral trade agreement between Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore, covering all aspects of commercial relations between the countries. … Read More
Columbia University, Thomson Reuters launch data visualisation project - July 3, 2012
Columbia University and business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, have announced the launch of the Advanced Data Visualization Project (ADVP). The project, based at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), will be sponsored by Thomson Reuters. It is projected to facilitate research into… Read More
Open Access option now available in more than 80 percent of Wiley journals - July 3, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that its open access option for individual journal articles, OnlineOpen, will be available to authors in 81 percent of the journals it publishes. OnlineOpen gives authors the option to publish an open access paper in their journal… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe to showcase zbMATH database and EuDML project at Mathematics event - July 3, 2012
Germany’s FIZ Karlsruhe, along with Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, will be present in various respects at the 6th European Congress on Mathematics, to be held in Kraków from July 2-7. The event takes place every four years at different locations and is projected as the… Read More
