Karger launches 2015 prices for journals, collections and packages - August 13, 2014
International STM publisher Karger has launched its 2015 prices for journals, collections and packages. The journal program for 2015 consists of 106 biomedical journal titles, most of them in English language. The program includes 23 Open Access journals and 11 new titles. The Price List… Read More
Brill’s 2015 journal prices now available - July 21, 2014
International scholarly publisher Brill has announced that its 2015 Journal Program now consists of 208 titles. The program includes 9 new journals, 1 take-over journal and 2 Editions Rodopi journals, a recent acquisition of Brill. Five of Brill's new 2015 journals are full Open Access. … Read More
North American Working Group to revise Model License - March 14, 2014
Libraries today must be strongly proactive in shaping the licenses that govern their campuses' electronic information resources. A multi-organisational effort is now underway to strengthen libraries' negotiating position in the e-resources marketplace. In 1997, the LIBLICENSE project (then at Yale Library and since 2011 at the Read More
Open access material science journal changes copyright license - March 7, 2014
IOP Publishing (IOP), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) have announced that Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) has adopted the Creative Commons license (CC-BY 3.0) for all articles published in the journal.… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center unveils MOOC content licensing solution - March 6, 2014
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has launched a MOOC Content Licensing Solution in partnership with course material providers SIPX, Study.net, and XanEdu. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are large virtual classrooms that are accessed online by students worldwide and that are often sponsored by leading institutions… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry: Gold for Gold in Germany - February 27, 2014
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced an enhanced offering for all institutions involved in the DFG-RSC Gold licence agreement. More than 87 institutions in Germany, plus all Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes, are not only able to access the full range of RSC Journals,… Read More
Springer’s open access titles to move to new CC-BY 4.0 license - December 19, 2013
Articles submitted to BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen journals from February 03, 2014 onwards will be subject to the new CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution license. This also applies to open access articles published in the majority of Springer's subscription-based journals using the Open Choice… Read More
European Commissioners endorse STM’s text and data mining initiatives - November 18, 2013
European Commissioners have recommended the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) TDM Roadmap as an official 'pledge' to help improve digital content licensing across Europe. At the final meeting of the Licences for Europe stakeholder dialogue, a broad spectrum of STM publishers presented… Read More
STM publishers present copyright and licensing options for a digital European future - November 13, 2013
A broad coalition of STM publishers have been supporting the European Commission's 'Licenses for Europe' initiative to demonstrate their continuing commitment to appropriate copyright and licensing within the new digital landscape which is emerging across the continent. As part of this engagement, publishers have pledged support… Read More
UC Libraries discontinue Taylor & Francis system-wide journals license - July 5, 2013
The Libraries on the ten UC campuses and the California Digital Library (CDL) have discontinued their system wide Taylor & Francis journals license in favour of local campus subscriptions effective January 1, 2013. Three important system wide principles were the basis for the decision - achieving… Read More
