(23 June 2015, Beijing, China) Ex Libris® Group, a leading provider of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that the metadata of eJournals, dissertations, conference papers, and gazetteers hosted by Wanfang Data will be indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources. As a result, this extensive content from Wanfang…
(23 June 2015, Farmington Hills, Mich) Providing students, faculty and researchers a unique glimpse into the often hidden aspects of humankind’s conquest of the skies, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, today launched Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991, a new digital archive in its Smithsonian Collections Online series. The archive brings together images, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks,…
(23 June 2015) Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Maney Publishing. Maney’s high-quality portfolio consists of scholarly journals in materials science and engineering, the humanities and social sciences, and health sciences. Maney’s book series will also be joining Taylor & Francis Group. Taylor & Francis Group is now working to ensure a smooth transition for…
(23 June 2015, Farmington Hills) In the cooperative spirit of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), four leading academic content providers — Credo; Gale, a part of Cengage Learning; IEEE; and SAGE – today, publically disclose their support of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI). In NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (RP-19-2014), content…
(23 June 2015) Marie Lebert provides a timelime showing the development of open access from from 1665 to 2015. 1665 saw the publication of the first journals. But open access as we know it started in 1991 with the development of arXiv. The chronology is here.
(22 June 2015) Libgen, the largest online repository of free books and academic articles, has pretty much vanished from the internet. Earlier this month the site’s operators were sued by academic publishing company Elsevier, who asked a New York federal court for a preliminary injunction hoping to keep the site down for good. Most of…
(19 June 2015) On 1-2 July 2015, the East Asia Library of Stanford University Libraries will host an international academic conference titled Beyond the Book: A Conference on Unique and Rare Primary Sources for East Asian Studies Collected in North America. The conference will bring librarians, archivists, and scholars from all over North America to…
(18 June 2015) The ISMPP (International Society for Medical Publication Professionals) inaugural meetings in the Asia Pacific region are approaching. Registration is now open for both (1-day) meetings in Beijing, China, on Sunday, August 30, 2015, at the Sofitel Wanda Hotel, and in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, at the Hilton Tokyo. The…
(18 June 2015, Denver, CO) Odilo’s global reach and rapid expansion in the United States continues to attract publishers from around the world. Just six months after launching their innovative eBook lending library, Odilo now offers digital content from all of the leading publishers, including frontlist and backlist titles, along with pre-orders. With the addition…
(22 June 2015) In early 2014, COPE, together with Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), published a minimum set of criteria for journals and publishers to be assessed against when they apply for membership at one of our organisations. The Principles of…
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