Trends in scholarly publishing; transcript of London Book Fair presentation
16 May 2014
In his presentation at the recent London Book Fair Tom Wilkie provided an overview and update on some key trends in scholarly communication
Industry trends
Digital platform brings researchers and participants together
8 May 2014
A new platform is helping to link researchers with potential candidates for research studies. Matt Terrell describes the Call for Participants project and looks at its global potential
World Health Organization joins Europe PMC
7 May 2014
The World Health Organization is becoming a member of the open-access repository Europe PubMed Central in preparation for the launch of its open-access policy in July
Five UK universities sign up to new data archiving deal
7 May 2014
Queens University Belfast, Gonville & Caius, UCL, and the universities of Leeds and York, have purchased the Arkivum data archiving service via the Janet Data Archive Framework Agreement
Aries System automates transfer of workflow data into peer-review metric
6 May 2014
Aries Systems and STRIATUS/JBJS have announced a development partnership that will allow relevant workflow data to be transferred automatically from Editorial Manager to the PRE-score peer-review quality metric
Open Access Button project starts work on Version 2.0
28 April 2014
The Open Access Button, which enables people to log when they hit paywalls to scholarly content and to find alternative routes to that content, is seeking funding for Version 2.0 of the tool, which is planned for launch in this year's Open Access Week in October
Ideas Box helps refugees connect with information
28 April 2014
Libraries Without Borders has launched a new project to help with the intellectual needs of refugee communities
New resource aims to provide quality insight into OA resources
24 April 2014
The team behind the ISSN identifiers have developed a new resource to help people assess the quality and relevance of open-access resources. Sian Harris reports
The impact of impact
24 April 2014
In an article based on his presentation at the UKSG conference earlier this month, Ernesto Priego gives a researcher-focused perspective on 'impact'
EBSCO releases open policy for data sharing
23 April 2014
EBSCO will make all metadata (and full text when contractually allowed) available for more than 120 full-text databases and over 500,000 e-books, as well as over 50 historical digital archives, to third-party discovery services
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