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SpringerOpen expands Japanese society open access journals portfolio
Surgical Case Reports is now being published by SpringerOpen and it will soon be joined by JA Clinical Reports and IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications. The addition of these journals to the portfolio adds to the growing number of Japanese society open access journals published by SpringerOpen in fields such as clinical medicine, life sciences and computer science.
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Thieme announces new research project examining authors’ perceptions of APC and Pay What You Want as a business model for academic journals
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced a collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich’s School of Management and Department of Economics in a groundbreaking research project. The project involves examining authors’ perceptions of Article Processing Fees (APC) and Pay What You Want (PWYW) as a business model for academic journals.
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SAGE set to publish Evolutionary Psychology
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it will begin publishing Evolutionary Psychology, an open access journal focused on the evolutionary origins of human behaviour, beginning July, 2015. First published in 2003, Evolutionary Psychology is a leading resource for scientists, researchers, and clinicians across the social, behavioural and life sciences.
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TechTarget appoints veteran Wall Street data scientist Chuck Alvarez as Chief Data Officer
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. has hired Chuck Alvarez as Chief Data Officer. In his new role, Alvarez will focus on TechTarget’s Big Data strategy and new initiatives that will leverage TechTarget’s Deal Data to deliver rich demand-side research, analytics and insight to enterprise Information Technology (IT) professionals, IT vendors and institutional investors.
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OpenStax College, ASM Press partner to offer free introductory-level title in spring 2016
Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College and the American Society for Microbiology Press have announced a partnership to produce Microbiology, a new introductory-level textbook due for release in spring 2016 that will be free online and low-cost in print. The collaborative publishing agreement – the first for each partner – will produce a peer-reviewed, open-copyright textbook.
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Three major German consortia select Ex Libris’ Alma resource management service
Library automation services Ex Libris Group has announced that the Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ), the Verbundzentrale des Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbunds (VZG), and the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz) consortia have selected the Alma® resource management service as the technology infrastructure for their new Common Bibliographic Data Zone. As part of the collaborative project, the three consortia will form a joint consortium to define, create, and maintain the Common Bibliographic Data Zone.
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