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'Scientists are wary of open-access journals'
22 March 2007
Scientists fear that non-traditional publication could affect their chances of promotion, according to a new study.
German researchers get Emerald archive
22 March 2007
German researchers will have access to all Emerald journals between 1994 and 2005 thanks to a new agreement between the publisher and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
UK plans national e-theses service
14 March 2007
The UK should have a live, fully-integrated, national electronic theses service within two years, thanks to funding of a new project.
US publishers endorse international STM declaration
12 March 2007
The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has endorsed the Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing.
Elsevier acquires Beilstein Database
08 March 2007
Elsevier has bought the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation of chemical facts in the field of organic chemistry.
National Library of New Zealand partners with OCLC
08 March 2007
The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.
Digitisation helps preserve printing history
08 March 2007
ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.
US university presses want to expand open-access discussion
01 March 2007
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has called for the open-access debate to be opened up to different types of scholarly literature and different access models.
Apex takes on medical digitisation project
01 March 2007
The publishing services division of Apex CoVantage has been selected to create a multi-million page digital archive of medical journals for a major association.
ALPSP Learned Journals Collection signs Southern European deal
27 February 2007
The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).
Publishing Technology lists on AIM
27 February 2007
The new publishing services company formed from the merger of Ingenta and VISTA International will be listed on the AIM stock exchange from tomorrow.
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Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues
