Dear Subscriber - November 3, 2009
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Key initiatives, good response seen at International Open Access Week, says SPARC - November 2, 2009
Open access (OA) to research will play a central role in research and scholarship for years to come, going by the response to the first International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23), SPARC has stated. The event was organised by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and… Read More
BioMed Central launches new OA journal – Automated Experimentation - November 2, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal - Automated Experimentation. Siu-wai Leung of the University of Macau, David Robertson of the University of Edinburgh, and Dietlind Gerloff of the University of California will serve as the Editors-in-chief of the… Read More
Dutch Universities gain access to Taylor & Francis Group’s Library - November 2, 2009
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), UK, has announced a new partnership with UKB, the Dutch consortium of the 13 university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands. The deal is to provide University researchers in the Netherlands access to academic research via the Taylor… Read More
Miami-Dade Public Library System opts for discovery tool AquaBrowser Library - November 2, 2009
The Miami-Dade Public Library System has announced that it has chosen AquaBrowser Library, a discovery tool offering visual, faceted searching that connects to any data source. AquaBrowser is projected to help the library’s members easily and fully explore its vast collection. Existing users of the search tool include over 700… Read More
CSHL Press releases the Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive - November 2, 2009
Laboratory manuals publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), US, has released the Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive, a complete online collection of its scholarly monographs. The 59-volume archive includes all monographs published by CSHL Press from 1970 to 2009. It spans a range of… Read More