New peer-reviewed journal Telemedicine Reports set to launch in Summer 2020 - June 22, 2020
Telemedicine Reports, a new peer-reviewed open access companion to the highly regarded Telemedicine and e-Health, will launch as a part of the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Open Access portfolio in Summer 2020. All articles in Telemedicine Reports will be published open access to ensure broad… Read More
NISO E-Book Metadata Recommended Practice now available for public comment - June 19, 2020
The NISO Working Group on E-Book Bibliographic Metadata Requirements in the Sale, Publication, Discovery, Delivery, and Preservation Supply Chain is inviting comments on its proposed Recommended Practice. Everyone involved in producing and using e-book metadata — publishers, retailers, libraries, service providers, and preservation agencies — is… Read More
JASA Express Letters to relaunch as OA title - June 19, 2020
The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) has announced that JASA Express Letters will transition in January 2021 to an online-only, gold open access journal. Since 2006, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters has published as a section of JASA. JASA Express… Read More
ProQuest streamlines discoverability of subscription and OA content - June 17, 2020
ProQuest is improving the accessibility of subscription and open access content on its award-winning platform with a series of enhancements designed to boost research, teaching and learning outcomes. These enhancements include: a new starting point for research; new preview feature; and broader discovery of open… Read More
Nature Research authors the latest to benefit from In Review, a free integrated preprint sharing service - June 15, 2020
In Review, the innovative service which integrates early sharing and increased transparency in peer review with the journal submission and peer review process, is being made available for the first time to authors submitting primary research to Nature Research titles. Authors submitting to two Nature Research titles, Nature Communications and… Read More
VCU Libraries unveils VCU Publishing, a digital press for faculty, students and the community - June 15, 2020
VCU Libraries is launching an initiative that will spearhead the digital publishing of scholarship by Virginia Commonwealth University faculty, students and the community, including books, peer-reviewed journals, digital scholarship and more. The initiative, VCU Publishing, aims to amplify scholarly and research findings… Read More
OCLC and Center for Research Libraries launch Shared Print Data Infrastructure Project - June 15, 2020
Global library cooperative OCLC will be hosting a webinar on June 17, 2020 to introduce the new registration service and the updated API to the wider shared print community. Registration for the webinar can be done at: http://click.e.oclc.org/?qs=4469a1b8b83fe956592581c676bbf8d2542e712bc0dabb198c5812a0f326e103f65f3ee2c6629fd38c42facd3154d180e7350e1a0c5e8fae. In 2018 OCLC… Read More
ARPHA Platform welcomes fourth medical academic journal – Bulgarian Cardiology - June 15, 2020
In June 2020, ARPHA Platform welcomed the fourth medical academic journal to its portfolio: Bulgarian Cardiology, the official publication venue of the Bulgarian National Cardiac Society since 1995. The Society is a member of the European Society of… Read More
Scholastica announces new edition of Academic Journal Management Best Practices: Tales From the Trenches - June 12, 2020
Scholastica, a web-based software platform for managing academic journals with integrated peer review and open access publishing tools, has announced the release of a completely revamped 2nd edition of its eBook Academic Journal Management Best Practices: Tales From the Trenches. Like the first edition, this eBook… Read More
O’Reilly for Higher Education now available for all UC campuses - June 10, 2020
O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE) is now available for all UC campuses on O’Reilly’s new platform: http://uclibs.org/PID/432785. OHE contains close to 48,000 titles of technical eBooks, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths and audio books from O’Reilly & Associates, including selective titles from over… Read More
