De Gruyter and Versita cooperate on Eastern Europe
Academic publishers cooperate in the publication and sales of journals from Eastern Europe and books from Eastern and Central Europe
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Guide reviews open-access income models
SPARC has published a guide that reviews the sustainability of current and propective open-access publishers.
French Sudoc records added to WorldCat
Nine million records from French academic libraries will be added into WorldCat
Researchers concerned about mixed messages
Researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about how they should communicate their research findings
PubMed Central Canada launches
Canadians will soon have free access to their own archive of health science literature
Toby Green will be next chair of ALPSP
Toby Green, head of publishing at OECD, was elected as the next chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
ALPSP announces award winners
ALPSP announced the winners of its 2009 Awards at the ALPSP International Conference dinner in September
Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review
Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review, according to preliminary findings from an international surveys of authors and reviewers, the Peer Review Survey…
BBSRC pours funds into bioscience datahandling
A multi-million pound investment from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council will boost European Life Sciences research
Online learning beats traditional teaching
US government report indicates students learning online have on average performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.
PEER appoints Loughborough and UCL universities
Teams from Loughborough University and University College London are to investigate the impact of 'Green Open Access' on repository users
Alliance urges Google Books investigation
The US Special Libraries Association and partners have formed the Open Books Alliance, which hopes to resolve issues of copyright, access, anti-trust and privacy