Gale releases Gale NewsVault, offers access to 400 years of newspapers and periodicals - December 2, 2010
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the release of Gale NewsVault, a specially designed online platform that enables cross-searching of Gale's enormous range of historical newspaper and periodical collections from a single interface. Providing access to more than 2,000 titles and 10… Read More
UK’s Open University opts for Linked Open Data Movement - November 19, 2010
The UK's Open University (OU) is reportedly the first university in the nation to open up access to online data from across the institution as part of the Linked Open Data Movement. The JISC-funded OU's LUCERO (Linking University Content for Education and… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert provides free online access to diabetes-related journals - November 15, 2010
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, will provide complimentary online access to the fully searchable legacy content of the company's diabetes-related journals through the end of November in honour of World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2010. Free online access is currently available for
Emerald releases first open access articles through special partnership with IFLA - November 4, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has released the first articles in open access as part of its 'special partnership' with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Available from November 1, 2010, the fourteen articles are published in… Read More
SPIE participates in Open Access Week with expanded suite of options - October 21, 2010
SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, is participating in the Open Access Week 2010 (18-24 October) with an expanded suite of open access (OA) options to its scholarly publications on light-based science and technology. SPIE is reportedly continuing to develop new models enabling online… Read More
JISC, Taylor & Francis unveil OA version of New Review of ‘Academic Librarianship’ - October 20, 2010
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has teamed up with publisher Taylor & Francis to produce the first open access (OA) issue of the New Review of Academic Librarianship, edited by Graham Walton from Loughborough University. The special issue on 'dissemination… Read More
Duke joins Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity - October 5, 2010
Duke University has joined a group of leading research institutions in signing a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE). The compact seeks to make it easier for researchers to publish their work in open-access scholarly journals, where it would be freely available online. As part of… Read More
Journal on the science of gold to be published as a SpringerOpen journal - September 28, 2010
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish Gold Bulletin as a SpringerOpen e-only journal through the sponsorship of the World Gold Council (WGC), starting in 2011. Under this publishing model, the entire contents of the Gold Bulletin will continue to be fully and… Read More
Versita launches OA platform for scholarly journals - September 28, 2010
E-publishing technology solutions provider Versita, Poland, has announced the launch of Versita Open, which allows publishers of scholarly journals to choose an open access model and services that best serve their needs. Versita Open has already attracted over 200 journals across numerous disciplines and expects to… Read More
Oxford University Press’ Oxford Open initiative reaches open access milestone - September 24, 2010
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced that the 100th journal has now joined its Oxford Open initiative. The Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Infectious Diseases, which are to be published by OUP on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America from… Read More
