Europeana Newspapers hits the big screen
(10 July 2014) The Europeana Newspapers project, in which LIBER is a partner, has just released a promotional video showcasing historic newspapers.
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Wiley’s Altmetric launch demonstrates the impact of research online
(8 July 2014) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced the addition of Altmetric data to its journal program, a service that provides a more complete picture of how users engage with scholarly research online. Following the success of a six-month pilot on Wiley Open Access titles in 2013, the service will be available for…
Five IOP journals to switch to electronic only
(23 June 2014) IOP Publishing (IOP) has announced that five of the company’s research journals will become electronic only and will no longer print paper editions. This transition will take effect with the 2015 subscription year and affects Biofabrication, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Biomedical Materials, Journal of Breath Research and Physical Biology. This decision has been…
American Astronomical Society journals going electronic only
(2 June 2014, Washington DC) The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have decided that all AAS research journals published with IOP will become electronic only and will no longer print paper editions. This transition will take effect with the 2015 subscription year and affects The Astronomical Journal (AJ) and The Astrophysical Journal…
Scientific Data launches with first Data Descriptors
(27 May 2014) Open access publication Scientific Data has launched online today, publishing its first eight Data Descriptors across fields including neuroscience, ecology and epidemiology. Scientific Data is the latest open research initiative from Nature Publishing Group. Data Descriptors, Scientific Data’s article type, are peer-reviewed, scientific publications that provide detailed descriptions of experimental and observational…
IOP Publishing and UK university libraries collaborate on open access offsetting pilot
(27 May 2014, Bristol) IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced the launch of a three-year pilot project under which 20 participating universities will be able to offset the majority of their expenditure on hybrid article publication charges (APCs) in IOP journals against their subscription and licence fees. The agreement follows discussions between IOP, Research Libraries…
RCN Publishing adds new content to its Nursing Journals Archive Collection
(20 May 2014, London) RCN Publishing (RCNP) announced today that it has added new content to its Nursing Journals Archive. Now, subscribers may select to have access to content published in 2013 across RCN Publishing’s nursing journals. With coverage from 1996 – present, the Nursing Journals Archive includes more than 15,000 articles from the 10…
EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project
(19 May 2014) the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project started in December 2013. Progress to date includes: Access at University of Yangon and the University of Mandalay to over 20 commercial e-resources (including over 10,000 full text journals and more than 130,000 full text eBooks); and an extensive programme of training for librarians has begun, and…
Bibliographic records of electronic journals published in Japan with ISSN assigned
ISSNを確認するには ISSN国際センターでは、登録されたISSNの書誌データをデータベース化し、オンライン上でISSN Portal（http://portal.issn.org/）として提供しています。ISSN Portalは有料登録制のため、利用登録された場合を除きご覧頂くことはできませんが、日本国内で発行された出版物については、オンラインジャーナルを除き、NDL-OPAC（国立国会図書館蔵書検索・申込システム）に掲載の書誌データで、ISSNを確認していただくことが可能です。 More here.
Max Planck Society contributions to SPIE journals to be open access
(28 April 2014, Bellingham, Washington, USA) Research articles by authors at Max Planck Society institutes that are published in SPIE journals will be open access under a new agreement with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Under the agreement, the Max Planck Society will pay open access fees for articles submitted by researchers…