MORE 'SCHOLARLY-PUBLISHING' POSTS
Scholarly Publishing: New Hope – The New Platform for the PLoS Journal Websites
| Data Files, PLOS, Publishing
From the PLoS Blog: After five years of hosting the PLoS journals on Topaz, the PLoS development team decided earlier in the year that it was time to re-think the platform for the next five years. They came up with a new architecture, named New Hope, which leverages best practices in developing enterprise platforms, a […]
Happy Anniversary and Congrats to the Entire JOVE Team! Via Newswise: In the 10 billion dollar academic publishing industry producing over 25,000 scholarly journals, there is only one peer reviewed science video journal. This month, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) celebrates the fifth anniversary of its first issue. The journal is the brainchild of […]
Serials: Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Leading Open Access STM Journal Publisher in India
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
From the Announcement: Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that it has acquired Medknow, a leading Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) journal publishing operation headquartered in Mumbai, India and one of the largest open access publishers in the world. The acquisition expands Wolters Kluwer Health’s Medical Research business’ presence in key developing markets and supports its […]
New British Library, JISC Agreements for Elsevier and Taylor & Francis
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
From The Bookseller: Elsevier and Taylor & Francis have both signed agreements with the British Library which aim to improve the speed of delivery of documents to non-commercial readers abroad. The agreement requires end-users and not-for-profit libraries to monitor whether articles are being used commercially or non-commercially, with the articles supplied under the new agreement […]
Scholarly Publishing: BioOne Officially Launches Mobile Interface To Access All Content
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing
From the BioOne News Release: BioOne is pleased to announce the official launch of BioOne Mobile, an optimized website now available to smartphone users at www.bioone.org. With this new mobile interface, all content from BioOne’s 167 journals and book series is available for easy access to faculty, students, and researchers via their iPhones, Androids, and […]
University of Illinois To Digitize C&RL (College & Research Libraries) Archive (1939-1996)
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing
From ARCL News: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has launched a project to digitize the complete back contents of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) official scholarly research journal College & Research Libraries (C&RL). The volunteer initiative will scan the full contents of C&RL through 1996 and make them freely available […]
The CrossRef Annual Meeting took place last week in Cambridge, MA. CrossRef Annual Meeting and Workshops Web Page(November 14-15, 2011) Workshops Included: + Boot Camp: An Introduction to CrossRef + Resources for Small Publishers Industry Project Briefings Bob Boissy, Springer Ed Pentz, Executive Director #1 ||| Presentation #2 Alexander (Sasha) Schwarzman, American Geophysical Union (AGU) […]
Workshop Report and Presentations: "Scholarly Society Journals in Transition to Open Access"
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
From a KE Web Site Post: The workshop was organised [by Knowledge Exchange] in conjunction with OASPA [Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] and was attended by 35 participants, who came from a variety of backgrounds and countries. General lessons from the presentations and discussions were not to generalize lessons for every journal. It is valuable […]
Open Access Publishing: Editorial Team Announced for eLife, New Open Access Journal
| Associations and Organizations, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing
From a Howard Hughes Medical Institute News Release The senior editorial team is today announced for eLife, the new top-tier, open-access research journal to be launched next year with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust. The senior editorial team is comprised of internationally-renowned, active researchers […]
Recently Released: Report on Integration of Data and Publications
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Reports
by Susan Reilly Wouter Schallier Sabine Schrimpf Eefke Smit Max Wilkinson Source: Opportunities for Data Exchange Abstract Scholarly communication is the foundation of modern research where empirical evidence is interpreted and communicated as published hypothesis driven research. Many current and recent reports highlight the impact of advancing technology on modern research and consequences this has […]
