Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 16, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Mike Shatzkin (Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject); Stevan Harnad (Overselling the Importance and Urgency of CC-BY for Peer-Reviewed Scholarly and Scientific Research); Mark Carrigan (Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the… Read More
European Research Council joins UK PubMed Central - July 16, 2012
The European Research Council (ERC), one of Europe’s biggest funders of scientific research, has announced that it will be joining UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), the online information service which provides biomedical and health researchers free access to millions of resources at the touch of a button.… Read More
EBSCO Publishing’s DynaMed chosen as primary point of care resource for NHS Scotland’s Knowledge Network - July 13, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that NHS Education for Scotland has selected DynaMed as its preferred point of care resource for all NHS Scotland staff and students. NHS Education’s Knowledge Network had offered DynaMed, as well as other point of… Read More
ACM journal articles now available from British Library’s Document Supply service - July 13, 2012
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an educational and scientific computing society, has announced that the latest articles from ACM are now available from the British Library’s Document Supply service. ACM delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession with leading-edge publications, conferences,… Read More
e-Libro to make e-books discoverable via OCLC’s WorldCat catalogue - July 13, 2012
E-Libro, a provider of Spanish language e-books delivered on the ebrary platform, has announced that all its e-books will soon be discoverable through OCLC's WorldCat, which is projected as the world's largest library catalogue. WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously for over 40… Read More
Three new publishers announce participation in CLOCKSS’ digital preservation archive - July 13, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of three new publishers in its digital preservation archive. The publishers are: NRC Research Press, Manchester University Press and Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon. The NRC Research Press began as the publishing arm of the National Research Council of… Read More
