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Copyright Clearance Center announces RightsLink for Scientific Communications

eJournals, Open AccessOctober 14, 2019

(9 Oct 2019) Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces the release of RightsLink for Scientific Communications, formerly RightsLink Author, which builds on a market-leading platform to help publishers quickly model and support a wide variety of transformative agreements. Moreover, CCC offers professional services that help organizations…

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EBSCO Information Services releases Serials Price Projection Report for 2020

eJournalsOctober 4, 2019

(1 Oct 2019) The 2020 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is now available. To read the 2020 Serials Price Projection Report in its entirety and view the Five-Year Journal Price Increase History, visit: http://journals.ebsco.com/products-services/explore-content. The report projects that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries are expected…

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New journal from Cambridge University Press to tackle problems in scholarly communication

eJournals, PublishersSeptember 20, 2019

(18 Sep 2019) A new journal from Cambridge University Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research. Experimental Results aims to tackle the crisis in the reproducibility of results, provide an outlet for standalone research that currently goes unpublished and to make peer review faster, less onerous and more transparent. Submissions…

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Cost per use overvalues journal subscriptions

eJournals, LibrariesSeptember 7, 2019

(5 Sep 2019) From Scholarly Kitchen editors’ note: Digital delivery of scholarly publications has enabled far more robust tracking of usage, with the COUNTER Project providing and periodically updating the defining standard for usage measurement. As a result, usage has become a critical metric for establishing the value of a given journal or content bundle in many circumstances,…

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2019 Scholar Metrics Released by Google

Data, eJournalsJuly 22, 2019

(19 Jul 2019) Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we (Google Scholar) are releasing the 2019 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2014–2018 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar…

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Diverting leakage to the library subscription channel

eJournals, PublishersJuly 17, 2019

(16 Jul 2019) In response to the recent news of Springer Nature and ResearchGate extend content sharing pilot, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe took a deep look into this pilot project and shared her thoughts & concerns from the librarian’s point of view. Read the full article from Scholarly Kitchen here.

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ScienceOpen and Tsinghua University Press partner to increase impact of Chinese research

eJournals, PublishersMay 24, 2019

(22 May 2019) The discovery platform ScienceOpen is partnering with Tsinghua University Press (TUP) to contextualize and promote Chinese research within an interactive research environment. This partnership integrates six TUP journals as featured collections in the ScienceOpen Super Collection ‘Tsinghua University Press’. Tsinghua University Press started its international outreach in the 1990s and has ever…

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Free webinar – deep dive into COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5

Databases, eBooks, eJournals, EventJanuary 22, 2019

(21 January 2019) In this instructional webinar, you’ll learn more about the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5 (COP5), which goes into effect in January 2019. Lorraine Estelle, COUNTER Project Director, will highlight key points in the development of the new release, touching on metric types and new reports. Then Elena Zapryanova-Hadjinikolova, COUNTER Executive Committee…

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Survey reveals need for good guidance about trustworthy places to publish research

eJournals, Publishers, Research SupportDecember 20, 2018

(19 December 2018) A survey carried out by the Think. Check. Submit. initiative has revealed a strong demand from both researchers and librarians for guidance about where to publish and an appreciation of the services that the initiative offers. However, it also revealed a need for further educational resources and wider reach for the initiative.…

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cOAlition S, Plan S and accelerating OA

eJournals, Open Access, PublishersDecember 20, 2018

(17 December 2018) The recent announcements emanating from Europe around open access (OA) have resonated throughout the globe. In this post we examine the origin and aim of Plan S, briefly outline reactions to the Plan from researchers, funders, and publishers, and provide links to further information for interested readers including to a feedback survey…

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