News

University of Hong Kong renews open-access agreement with Springer

11 July 2011

Agreement means that researchers with affiliation to the University of Hong Kong can publish their research results in Springer journals using Springer Open Choice

Copyright Clearance Center announces new CTO

11 July 2011

Copyright Clearance Center has named Haralambos "Babis" Marmanis as its chief technology officer and vice president, engineering

Digital Science invests in Toronto-based startup

11 July 2011

Digital Science has invested in 1DegreeBio, which helps scientists discover and select biological reagents more efficiently

ALPSP announces new chief executive

07 July 2011

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers has appointed Sarah Durrant as its new chief executive

Wilkes University selects Innovative products

16 June 2011

Wilkes University in the USA has selected the Millennium ILS, the Encore discovery application, AirPAC for Smartphones, and WebBridge LR link resolver from Innovative Interfaces

German public supports World War I project

16 June 2011

Hundreds of participants of all ages have contributed a great variety of personal memorabilia from World War I to the online "First World War in everyday documents" project

Programme brings open access to Africa

16 June 2011

BioMed Central is working on set of initiatives to encourage African researchers to publish their work in open-access journals

ACAP specifications handed over to standards body

16 June 2011

The latest version of the Automated Content Access Protocol has been released and responsibility for managing the specifications has been handed over to IPTC (International Press and Telecommunications Council)

Customer insight framework gets publisher backing

15 June 2011

Several major scholarly publishers are backing a new model to help them understand and handle customer data better

Tilburg University selects OCLC

15 June 2011

Tilburg University has chosen OCLC Web-scale Management Services and WorldCat Local for its library management and discovery

KBART recommendations endorsed by eight more publishers

15 June 2011

Another eight publishers are now able to supply metadata that conforms to the KBART recommended practice

Research shows open-access growth

15 June 2011

The volume of peer-reviewed research articles published under an open-access model has grown at a much faster rate than the total annual volume of all peer-reviewed research articles, according to a study published in the PLoS ONE

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