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
HighWire implements industry-leading disaster recovery scheme to enable full platform functionality - June 10, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire is implementing a new industry-leading data recovery centre which is designed to enable full platform functionality and data to be restored within a matter of hours, potentially minutes. The new recovery service will be deployed to all HighWire customers commencing… Read More
NIH launches preprint pilot to test NIH-funded research searchable preprints - June 10, 2020
The National Institutes of Health is launching the first phase of a pilot project designed to test the viability of making preprints resulting from NIH-funded research searchable in PubMed Central (PMC), a widely-used digital archive of full-text articles and, by extension, discoverable… Read More
Europe PMC to take in full text of COVID-19 preprints - June 9, 2020
In this pandemic, researchers have responded by publishing results rapidly, often through preprints. In fact, up to half of the publications in Europe PMC on COVID-19 are preprints rather than peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, the full text of these preprints are scattered as PDFs on preprint… Read More
EBSCO Information Services announces suite of resources for business studies from Harvard Business Publishing - June 5, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the release of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) Resources for Business Studies, which includes the new Harvard Business Publishing Student Success Package. The resources provide unique content to support business students to prepare them for the business… Read More
Cactus Communications launches integrated ecosystem of tools for academic researchers - June 4, 2020
Cactus Communications, a technology company accelerating scientific advancement, has announced the launch of R (researcher.life), an extensive integrated ecosystem of tools and support for academic researchers. The ecosystem currently offers six tools and platforms, all designed to address a specific need… Read More
