Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 1, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Is the Attention Economy of Scholarship Making Science Too Staid?); Gideon Burton (Scholarly Communications in the Long Tail of Knowledge); Ania Wieckowski (Ebooks: Getting Beyond Disruption); and Joseph Esposito (Platform Wars Come to the Book Business). A service… Read More
JISC report puts forth cost computation models for universities adopting OA - February 26, 2010
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has launched a new report that shows how universities can compute their cost-savings and increase their contribution to Corporate UK when they share their research papers through open access (OA). The ‘Modelling scholarly communication options: costs and benefits for… Read More
US’ justice dept. not to challenge MyWire’s online subscription news service - February 26, 2010
The US’ Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced that it will not challenge a proposal by MyWire Inc. to form the Global News Service, an online subscription news aggregation service. The service would provide interconnections among different publishers' online content - such… Read More
ALISE and OCLC Research name recipients of 2010 Library and Information Science Research Grants - February 26, 2010
The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) and OCLC Research have awarded 2010 Library and Information Science Research Grants to Louise Spiteri of Dalhousie University and Laurel Tarulli of Halifax Public Libraries; Hsin-liang Chen and Barbara Albee of Indiana University; and Besiki Stvilia and… Read More
Elsevier launches new online book series – Elsevier Insights - February 26, 2010
STM Publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Elsevier Insights, a new online book series covering topics in areas such as life and physical sciences, engineering, computer science, tourism, and finance. Elsevier Insights will provide high quality, specialised content through fast-track online publication. The first… Read More
East View Information Services’ content now searchable via Summon Web-Scale Discovery service - February 26, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that East View Information Services is the latest content player to sign with the Summon web-scale discovery service. With the Summon service, East View will provide content on its Universal Database platform, a key… Read More
