June 29, 2015 – Access

American Psychological Association partners with ReadCube to enhance discoverability of its journals and scholarly book collection

eBooks, eJournals, Publishers, ToolsJune 29, 2015

(25 June 2015) The American Psychological Association (APA) announces their partnership with Boston-based publishing software company ReadCube to index their scholarly journal and book collections with ReadCube’s Discover service. All 110 journals comprising the PsycARTICLES database, including several of the most highly cited and leading journals in psychology, along with more than 65,000 books and…

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Education Department now plans a college-rating system minus the ratings

UncategorizedJune 29, 2015

(25 June 2015) The U.S. Department of Education has retreated from its controversial plan to create a giant college-ratings system, top officials revealed on Wednesday. Instead, by late summer the department is now promising to produce a customizable, consumer-oriented website that won’t include any evaluations of colleges but will contain what one official described as…

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Free Ebook Foundation to promote access and preservation of knowledge, literature, and culture

eBooksJune 29, 2015

(26 June 2015, San Francisco, CA) Two projects that have been building towards a sustainable ecosystem for free eBooks have joined together in a new non-profit corporation. The Free Ebook Foundation envisions a world where eBooks will be funded, distributed and maintained for the benefit of all, by coordinating the efforts and resources of many.…

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