Frontiers appoints Molly Hawes as the UN SDGs Publishers Compact lead - April 29, 2021
Open Access scholarly publisher Frontiers has announced the appointment of Molly Hawes as the nominee responsible for coordinating the organization’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact. Frontiers pledged its commitment to the Compact in November 2020 and has since been developing new initiatives… Read More
LIBER joins the European Alliance for Research Excellence (EARE) - April 29, 2021
LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) has announced its membership to The European Alliance for Research Excellence (EARE). EARE is a coalition of companies and research organisations, formed in 2017, that are committed to the future of… Read More
Stellenbosch University goes live with the Ex Libris Leganto solution - April 29, 2021
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Ex Libris Leganto® course reading list solution has been rolled out at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University. Lecturers now benefit from simple end-to-end workflows for creating, managing, and sharing reading lists, while students can rapidly access… Read More
Wolters Kluwer collaborates with Shandong University to publish two open access journals - April 28, 2021
Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced the addition of two fully open access journals to the Lippincott® portfolio as part of a shared mission with Shandong University to expand the reach of healthcare discoveries globally with the publication of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and Current Urology. The… Read More
PLOS set to launch five new peer-reviewed Open Access journals in 2021 - April 28, 2021
PLOS, a non-profit, open access publisher, is set to launch five new peer-reviewed Open Access journals in 2021, all with an emphasis on directly addressing the most pressing health and environmental issues facing the society today. The approach is to co-create - with researchers at the forefront… Read More
Okanagan College becomes first Canadian institution to fully transition to the FOLIO Library Services Platform using EBSCO FOLIO - April 28, 2021
Okanagan College (OC) will be the first institution in Canada to fully transition to the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP) using EBSCO FOLIO hosting and implementation services from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). OC, located in British Colombia, is… Read More
