Plum Analytics acquired by EBSCO
EBSCO Information Services has acquired altmetrics firm Plum Analytics
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HSS publishing ‘squeezed by emphasis on science and medicine’
The global emphasis on scientific, technical and medical research is hurting humanities and social science research and publishing, according to research from Simba Information
Indiana library group picks OCLC’s WMS
PALNI is first academic library group to select OCLC WorldShare Management Services
Smithsonian Libraries releases courses on iTunes U
The Smithsonian Libraries has launched three courses of selected content on iTunes U
Springer OA titles move to CC-BY 4.0 licence
Articles submitted to BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen journals from 3 February 2014 onwards will be subject to the new CC-BY 4.0 Creative…
Beta platform to help funders launches
New solution promises to allow organisations to search global grant, publication, and author databases, compare overlaps between proposals and prior awards, assign reviewers based…
LIBER calls for copyright reform
European research library network LIBER has set out its views on European copyright reform through a position statement
Four US libraries switch to Sierra
Four US library organisations have recently selected the Sierra Services Platform to support their library operations and user community
SureChem chemical patent data donated to EMBL-EBI
Digital Science is donating the SureChem collection of more than 15 million chemical structures from world patents into the public domain through the European…
Ongoing funding required for open-access infrastructure, according to workshop
Although project funding can be used to start up a part of the open-access infrastructure, it does not guarantee the continuation of a service,…
Acquisition expands Thomson Reuters scholarly-research analytics
Thomson Reuters has acquired German-based AVEDAS, which develops and implements current research information systems
SCOAP3 to start on 1 January 2014
The SCOAP3 open-access publishing initiative in high-energy physics will start on 1 January 2014