Concordat on open research data launched - July 29, 2016
Four of the UK's leading research organisations - Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Research Councils UK (RCUK), Universities UK (UUK) and Wellcome Trust - have launched a concordat that proposes a series of clear and practical principles for working with… Read More
CrossRef to enable registration for preprints - May 6, 2016
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, will enable registration for preprints by August 2016. Crossref's original registration policy prevented its members from registering content and assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to 'duplicative works.' The new policy means that preprints will have separate DOIs… Read More
EBSCO Health and Duodecim announce partnership to make DynaMed Plus mit EbM GuidelinesTM available to German physicians - March 4, 2016
EBSCO Health is partnering with Finnish Medical Society Duodecim to include German guidelines in DynaMed Plus mit EbM Guidelines™. German users of DynaMed Plus™ will now be able to search for relevant guidelines in German and link out to DynaMed Plus for the latest information… Read More
Florida State University Faculty Senate passes university wide open access policy - February 23, 2016
The Florida State University Faculty Senate, in consultation with its Library Committee and staff of the FSU Libraries, voted unanimously this week to adopt a university-wide Open Access (OA) policy. FSU joins a growing list of major universities with similar policies designed to create a safe… Read More
KFAS and AAAS sign Memorandum of Understanding - February 1, 2016
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Through this cooperation, KFAS, Kuwait's advocate of innovation, technology and science, aspires to enrich its expertise, scientific… Read More
NISO releases set of principles to address privacy of user data in library, content-provider, and software-supplier systems - December 15, 2015
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a set of consensus principles for the library, content-provider and software-provider communities to address privacy issues related to the use of library and library-related systems. This set of principles developed over the past 8 months focus on balancing… Read More
SPARC applauds introduction of the Affordable College Textbook Act of 2015 - October 12, 2015
SPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to broaden access to academic knowledge, has applauded the introduction of the Affordable College Textbook Act of 2015, which would reduce the cost of college textbooks by expanding the use of open educational resources. The bill… Read More
Elsevier in deal to resell HCPro’s HIPAA and Corporate Compliance content to hospitals and health systems across the US - September 15, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced an agreement to resell HCPro's HIPAA and Corporate Compliance content to hospitals and health systems across the U.S. The new content libraries are available as part of Elsevier's comprehensive ICD and CDI eLearning solutions. HCPro's Corporate Compliance and HIPAA libraries are… Read More
Cambridge University and JRC sign MoU to promote and deepen scientific collaboration - September 9, 2015
The University of Cambridge and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission represented respectively by Jennifer Barnes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Strategy and Vladimír Šucha, Director-General, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote and deepen scientific collaboration. The… Read More
Johnson Matthey and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co., Ltd. sign Memorandum of Understanding - August 24, 2015
Johnson Matthey's Chief Executive, Robert MacLeod recently announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Johnson Matthey and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co., Ltd. (CASH). CASH is wholly owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China's top science and technology research… Read More
