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 Elsevier acquires bepress
Elsevier has acquired bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions’ research for maximum impact. Founded by three University of California, Berkeley professors in 1999, bepress allows institutions to collect, organise, preserve and disseminate their intellectual output, including preprints, working papers, journals or specific articles, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings and a wide variety of other data.
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 JSTOR expands in the Sciences with Scientific American
JSTOR has announced an agreement with Springer Nature to include Scientific American in JSTOR. JSTOR will offer the complete run of Scientific American from 1845 to 2012, with new content added each year. Scientific American will be included in the JSTOR Life Sciences collection, where it joins more than 150 other esteemed publications.
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 Journal of High Energy Physics celebrates 20 years of open access electronic publishing
The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) celebrated its 20th anniversary in July 2017. The open access journal belongs to the international School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, and is published bySpringer in collaboration with SISSA Medialab srl. JHEP covers world-leading research in high-energy physics, as well as related topics including general relativity, gravitation, and mathematical aspects of quantum field theories.
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 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley adopts Ex Libris Alma and Primo to unify library systems
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution. In making the move to Alma and Primo, the university’s goal is to streamline the differing workflows from each campus and adopt a standardized, more efficient approach.
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 APA collaborates with Center for Open Science to offer preprint services, data repository and open science badges to authors
The American Psychological Association, the non-profit publisher of 90 psychology journals, has entered a partnership with the Center for Open Science to offer open science badges to authors, create an APA data repository to ease sharing and designate a preferred preprint server for APA journal articles. APA’s journals program also supports open science badges, offered to authors who choose to share their data or materials or pre-register studies in an effort to promote transparency in scientific research.
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 The Czech Republic National Strategy of Open Access to Scientific Information and Data gets government approval
The Czech Republic National Strategy of Open Access to Scientific Information for 2017-2020 was approved by the Government on June 14, 2017. The strategy includes open access to publications and data (Data Management Plans) requirements for publicly funded research projects. Interoperable and OpenAIREcompatible open access e-Infrastructure will be built, and awareness raising and educational activities will be conducted.
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