(Stanford, CA & London, UK, 13 February 2014) HighWire Press and Altmetric LLP are pleased to announce the completion of an agreement to offer altmetrics integration to publications hosted on the HighWire Open Platform. This new agreement will enable leading publications on HighWire to join prestigious publishers such as the National Academy of Sciences and…
On 27 January 2014, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) signed a 5-year collaborative agreement on co-publishing the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM, ISSN 1468-6996). Both NIMS and Empa are the leading materials science research institutes…
(San Francisco, 11 February 2014) PeerJ (the award winning open access publisher of both PeerJ PrePrints and PeerJ) is pleased to announce that with the addition of Stanford University, twenty universities have now signed up to provide PeerJ Publication Plans to their faculty. Authors from these institutions will have their publication plans automatically paid for…
Australian Volunteers for International Development is looking for a librarian for the public library of Luang Prabang, Laos, a UNESCO World Heritage town. The AVID volunteer will conduct a needs analysis and work with library staff to develop the action plan which will identify improvements to current operations, strategies to enhance services and steps to…
The Roger K. Summit Scholarship, awarded annually by ProQuest, was established to honor Dr. Roger K. Summit, the founder of Dialog, a ProQuest business, for his outstanding contributions to the field of information science. The scholarship is open to all LIS students worldwide. The award is the equivalent of US USD5,000 and is presented at…
(11 February 2014) The IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania Section will be holding its annual Mid-Term Meeting from 17 – 18 February 2014 at the Petronas Petroleum Resource Centre, Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur. The two day meeting will be followed by an International Seminar on Library Consortium & Community…
If you’re contemplating producing tutorials to help students be better researchers, lend an ear to the online tutorials from the Canberra University Library. They cover avoiding plagiarism, referencing, finding journal articles and more. The tutorials are clear and precise and range from 5 to 15 minutes. Listen to them on the Canberra University Library website.
(28 January 2014) Annual Reviews has a new journal. The Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application will publish critical reviews about developments in the field of statistics and is edited by Stephen E. Fienberg, the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and…
(10 February 2014) The largest North American data repository, the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), has registered about 20,000 objects via da|ra, the German DOI service provider for social and economic data. Thanks to the cooperation between CrossRef, CNRI and DataCite the change from CrossRef to DataCite services was completed successfully. As…
(7 February 2014) The European Commission has awarded GBP6m to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK, a revolutionary method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe. The system will ensure that current digital archives, including ‘big data,’ are future-proofed. (Big data is data sets of such a…
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