Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On: Periodicals Price Survey 2015
(23 April 2015) The annual Periodicals Price Survey has been published. A lengthy summary with tables and figures is featured in the Library Journal.
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Volunteer with DOAJ
(21 April 2015) DOAJ is looking for volunteers to help review journal applications. In addition to volunteers with English as a mother tongue, Chinese and Indonesian speakers are welcome. Read about the 18 different languages and how to apply.
DOAJ to develop a metadata harvester and API
(16 April 2014) In May DOAJ we will be starting development of a metadata harvester and an API. The harvester will collect he PLoS metadata, doubling the DOAJ article count. The API will allow publishers to bulk upload their own article metadata without having to manually upload an XML file. For mega-publishers such as Redalyc,…
Twelve exciting and important developments due for release by DOAJ
(8 April 2015) DOAJ has a busy year ahead. Among the deliverables are openURL, a landing page for every article, structured metadata, Google Scholar compatibility, subject browser and shareable, stable URLs. These and several more developments are described in detail here.
BrowZine integration with EndNote is now available
(April 2015) Announcing the launch of BrowZine integration with EndNote, the leading bibliographic management service from Thomson Reuters. This service is now available for all BrowZine iOS users, with Android support to follow soon. From the PDF view in BrowZine, EndNote now appears as a bibliographic management export option. With a single tap, users may…
DOAJ making improvements to data, UI and discoverability
(8 April 2015) By the end of April, DOAJ will have released 10 new upgrades or developments that we are working. These will cover the following areas: – reinstating OpenURL – giving every article its own landing page – structured metadata and Google Scholar compatibility – improved OAI-PMH – upgraded facets for searching and filtering…
The life and death of an open access journal: Q&A with Librarian Marcus Banks
31 March 2015) Marcus Banks is interviewed by Richard Poynder about the viability of open access journals. In the spotlight is Biomedical Digital Libraries, BDL, launched in 2003 by Yale University Medical Library and BioMed Central. Four years later, however, BDL succumbed to an increase in the cost of the article-processing charges it levied. This…
NPG and Shanghai Institute of Ceramics launch the first Nature Partner Journal in China
(25 March 2015) Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) today signed an official agreement with Nature Publishing Group to launch the first Nature Partner Journal in China, npj Computational Materials. The open access Nature Partner Journals (NPJ) publish high-quality research in collaboration with world-renowned international partners, and have adopted a modified set…
New international, interdisciplinary, open access journal launched by the Ecological Societies of America and China
(17 March 2015) Today, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the Ecological Society of China (ESC) jointly launch a new open access scholarly research journal to foster communication of applied ecological research across national and disciplinary boundaries. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (EHS, ISSN: 2332-8878) features international collaborations, interdisciplinary research, and multi-scale projects. “The new journal…
Data Conversion Laboratory helps Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia master the academic eBooks market
(16 March 2015, Fresh Meadows, NY) Due to tremendous growth in the eBook market, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penerbit USM, thereafter USM Press) tapped Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) to convert its inventory of books and academic journals to EPUB format. In the past 21 months, this partnership has facilitated growth of USM Press’s list of…