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HighWire Press launches integration with Peer Review Evaluation Service for Science journals

eJournals, Publishers, ToolsMarch 16, 2016

(15 March 2016) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced that all journals in the Science family, including Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, and Science Advances, now feature the PRE “badge” on articles published in 2016 and beyond. By clicking the badge, readers can quickly see detailed information about the peer-review process, including the number of reviewers…

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ProQuest launches Ebook Central

eBooks, Publishers, ToolsMarch 16, 2016

(15 March 2016, Mountain View, CA) After months of intensive testing with library beta partners and researchers from around the world, ProQuest launched its highly-anticipated ProQuest Ebook Central™ today. With the widest selection of content, the most flexibility, and backed with the market’s most sophisticated administrative engine, Ebook Central enables libraries to significantly improve users’…

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Workshop on using Sri Lanka Journals Online for journal Editors

Asia Pacific, PublishersMarch 11, 2016

(10 March 2016) An INASP workshop on Using SLJOL for Journal Editors will be held from 10 to 11 March 2016 in collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF) of Sri Lanka in Colombo. “The workshop aims to train the journal staff to load their own content onto SLJOL and manage the peer-review process in an…

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Apple gets smacked by $450-million eBook price-fixing fine

eBooks, PublishersMarch 8, 2016

(7 March 2016) The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear Apple’s appeal of a lower court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase eBook prices. Apple must now pay $450 million as part of its anti-trust eBook settlement. Amazon, however, is probably grinning like the Cheshire Cat. The publishers…

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Alexander Street and Docuseek2 partner to deliver top documentary films

PublishersMarch 8, 2016

(7 March 2016, Alexandria, VA and Chicago, IL) Alexander Street and Docuseek2 today announced a strategic partnership to develop new products and platforms, and expand the availability of the highest-quality documentary films for higher education. Over the next six months, Docuseek2 will migrate to a new platform powered by Alexander Street, integrating the rich variety…

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Gale content now discoverable through Google

Publishers, ToolsMarch 2, 2016

(29 February 2016, Farmington Hills, Mich.) Gale, a leading provider of library resources and part of Cengage Learning, has reached a major milestone in its quest to improve discoverability and researcher workflow, completing indexing work with Google. Researchers can now easily discover scholarly content from Gale and its partners on Google or Google Scholar, through…

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Feature Film and Exclusive Content PDA collections now available

Databases, PublishersFebruary 27, 2016

(26 February 2016, Alexandria, VA) Alexander Street today announced the launch of two Patron-driven Acquisition (PDA) specialty collections: PDA: Feature Film and PDA: Select. PDA: Feature Film is an innovative collection that gives users access to hundreds of feature films, silent films, and world cinema titles. Many are exclusive to Alexander Street. Top content providers…

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INTACT begins its work

Open Access, PublishersFebruary 24, 2016

(23 February 2016) In October 2015, the open access infrastructure project INTACT started its work. Funded by DFG, INTACT brings together three already existing initiatives which will now collaborate under one roof: The Open APC platform at Bielefeld University Library collects cost information for open access article charges from university and research institutions. The constantly…

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TrendMD test shows 49 percent increase in article readership from over 16 million unique readers a month

Publishers, ToolsFebruary 23, 2016

(22 February 2016) TrendMD, the leading scholarly content discoverability recommendation platform, shows it increased weekly article pageviews by 49% in a controlled study across 500 articles, offering an effective post-publication dissemination strategy for research and professional news articles in a study now published in Learned Publishing. Unlike publicity, social media, and paid advertising, such as…

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China bans foreign firms from publishing directly online

Asia Pacific, Censorship, PublishersFebruary 21, 2016

(19 February 2016) The Chinese government has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. The directive by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which will come into effect on 10 March, states: “Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures and foreign business units shall not…

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