German National Library of Science and Technology successfully negotiates licence for SPIE Digital Library - February 11, 2015
The Alliance licence for the SPIE Digital Library, which the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) negotiated with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, came into force on 1 January 2015. The SPIE Digital Library contains 420,000 scientific… Read More
Ford Foundation adopts open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research - February 4, 2015
The Ford Foundation has announced that it is adopting an open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research to promote greater transparency and accessibility of materials. Effective February 1, grantees and consultants will be required to make foundation-funded materials subject to a Creative Commons license… Read More
Nature Publishing Group moves to CC BY 4.0 as default for OA journals - January 27, 2015
All 18 open access journals owned by Nature Publishing Group (NPG), and two society titles published by NPG, will use the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0 as default, effective immediately. All future open access journals will also use CC BY 4.0 as default. … Read More
WellDyneRx selects Elsevier’s PAC to deliver cost savings for its members - November 11, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced an agreement with WellDyneRx, an innovative, full-service Prescription Benefit Manager (PBM), to use Elsevier's Predictive Acquisition Cost (PAC). PAC, offered exclusively by Elsevier, is a drug price solution that closely tracks true acquisition cost. WellDyneRx services approximately six million health plan… Read More
NÖ Landeskliniken-Holding gains access to Springer medical journals collection - November 10, 2014
The NÖ Landeskliniken-Holding has now purchased a license for an extensive collection of Springer medical journals. As a result, medical staff from 27 different hospitals in Lower Austria will soon have access to more than 500 English- and German-language journals from Springer and Adis. The license… Read More
EBSCO Information Services releases Serials Price Projection for 2015 - October 3, 2014
The 2015 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) advises that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries are expected to be in the range of 5 to 7 percent (before currency impact). EBSCO releases the Serials Price Projections based… Read More
IOS Press announces 2015 journal prices - September 15, 2014
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has released its 2015 journal pricelist, which is available at www.iospress.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2015-Facts-sheet.pdf. Commencing its publishing activities in 1987, IOS Press serves the information needs of scientific and medical communities worldwide. The journal program now consists of more… Read More
New ICIS Power Index simplifies complex wholesale energy prices - August 22, 2014
ICIS, the independent authority on global energy markets, has launched the ICIS Power Index (IPI), which provides UK energy users, commercial buyers and policy-makers with a simple way to see wholesale energy price trends that impact the retail market. The index, which delivers insight into… Read More
IOP 2015 Product Catalogue and prices for customers based outside of the Americas now available - August 21, 2014
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced that its 2015 Product Catalogue and prices for customers based outside of the Americas are now available on its Librarian Channel. The Product Catalogue is available online to allow IOP to reduce its environmental impact. However,… Read More
COAR joins global coalition calling on STM Association to withdraw new model licenses - August 19, 2014
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), along with numerous other organisations, is a signatory to a letter calling on the STM Association to withdraw their model licences for open access. According to COAR, these licenses just serve to further confuse users about what they can do… Read More
