(27 August 2014) One of China’s most prestigious trade and academic publishers, Zhonghua Book Company, has announced that it will partner with Publishing Technology China to build a new pub2web powered website. As part of a government-backed project, the deal will see the creation of a new digital publishing platform and management system, designed to…
(28 August 2014, Philadelphia) Thomson Reuters today announced a collaboration with DataCite, a leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data. The collaboration will promote the discovery of research data sets through the Data Citation Index SM, a single-point solution providing access to quality research data sets from…
(28 August 2014) In response to the outbreak of the ebola virus in West Africa, Oxford University Press has made 50 articles from leading journals and online resources freely accessible to assist researchers working on the containment, treatment, and prevention of ebola hemorrhagic fever. Articles are free to access worldwide until 25 November 2014. More…
(28 August 2014) Online piracy is a massive challenge for all economies which depend on their creative industries, hurting publishers’ and authors’ income, employees’ jobs and governments’ tax revenues, says the International Publishers Association, IPA. In the UK, a new, dedicated police unit is tackling online IP crime with impressive results. The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) is targeting…
(28 August 2014) The revised Open Access policy requires researchers to deposit a copy of most research outputs to the University’s open access research repository, the ANU Digital Collections, within 12 months of publication. More about the new policy is here.
(21 August 2014) Taiwan’s National Central Library (NCL) has been working with the Bibliothèque nationale de France to catalogue their rare Chinese books. A display of post cards from late Qing and early Republic eras and French published reports and observations on China from the 19th and 20th centuries found in old bookstores and flea…
(25 August 2014, Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) Brill, the international scholarly publisher, is set to launch a Chinese version of their corporate website – brill.com/cn – at the Beijing Book Fair. Now available in Simplified Chinese, the website allows Brill to better serve the Chinese-speaking research and academic library communities. The press release is…
(25 August 2014) The National Library of Medicine, NLM, through the Disaster Information Management Research Center, has published a list of resources related to the 2014 ebola outbreak. They include maps, social media, journal literature and organizations with an interest in the topic. The list is here.
(24 August 2014) The post is fixed-term for two years, with the possibility of renewal. The appointee will (i) facilitate and monitor the library’s programmes to support the University’s research activities; (ii) work collaboratively with Head, Digital Strategies and Technical Services, and other library colleagues in developing, managing and marketing the university data archive; (iii)…
(21 August 2014) Google is rolling out a new look and usability improvements at Google Scholar. Publications get more prominence while citation metrics moves to the sidebar. More at the Google Scholar blog.
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