YUDU Media expresses support for putting all textbooks online - June 24, 2009
Digital publishing services provider YUDU Media has announced that it is in agreement with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision, and declared that all textbooks should be put online. The e-publishing company, which produces e-books and digital publications for various educational publishers and establishments, says that versions… Read More
BMC series accepting case reports again - June 23, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that medical journals in the BMC series have started considering case reports again. The move follows the recent departure of the Journal of Medical Case Reports from BioMed Central's portfolio. BMC Gastroenterology has published the first case report… Read More
Inderscience Publishers announces inaugural issues of six new titles - June 23, 2009
STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of six new titles. The new titles are: International Journal of Advanced Operations Management; International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling; International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise; International Journal of Environmental Engineering; International Journal… Read More
Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty votes for open access policy - June 19, 2009
At its latest meeting, the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) voted for allowing the university to make all faculty members' scholarly articles publicly available online. The resolution makes HGSE the fourth of Harvard's 10 schools to endorse open access to faculty research… Read More
New centre for research and development in open access communications announced - June 15, 2009
The Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) team at the University of Nottingham has announced the formation of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC). Based at the University of Nottingham, CRC will house the portfolio of open access projects, services and initiatives… Read More
US student organisations call for increased open access to research - June 12, 2009
A coalition of national and regional college student associations has issued a statement titled 'Student Statement on the Right to Research.' The statement calls on universities, research funders and researchers to take action in support of open access (OA) to research. Coalition partners include the American Medical Student Association, the… Read More
IOP journal offers free access to NRDA 2008 Proceedings - May 27, 2009
Classical and Quantum Gravity, published by IOP publishing, UK, has announced the online publication of a special issue on the Proceedings of Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis (NRDA) 2008. The NRDA meetings serve to bring together the complimentary efforts of the rapidly developing fields of numerical… Read More
International publishers and librarians associations release joint statement to enhance debate on OA - May 22, 2009
The International Publishers Association (IPA), the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) Publishers and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) have released a joint statement that calls for a more rational, evidence based debate on open access. The statement encourages experimentation… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces free availability of its Disease Briefing on Influenza - May 22, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the free availability of its Disease Briefing on Influenza, taken directly from Prous Science Integrity, a knowledge solution designed to empower discovery activities. The daily briefing provides information on Influenza A (H1N1) including development pipeline for… Read More
BMC Women’s Health publishes over 100 articles - May 20, 2009
BioMed Central journal BMC Women's Health has announced that it has reached and surpassed its 100th article milestone. The journal, launched in 2001, continues to steadily attract submissions, and publications have risen by 50 percent in the last three years. BMC Women's Health is an open… Read More
