 The British University in Egypt and McGraw-Hill partner to support digital transition |
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Building on its reputation as a leader in the use of digital technology for instruction, The British University in Egypt (BUE) is expanding its work with McGraw-Hill to deploy digital courseware to more than 20,000 students in 2019. Since 2017, BUE and McGraw-Hill have worked together to support the university’s transition towards digital, which has involved changing the traditional mindset at the university and transforming teaching methodologies through engagement and a focus on student outcomes. More Search for more news in this Category |
 American Association for Cancer Research set to launch new journal – Blood Cancer Discovery |
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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is launching a new journal, Blood Cancer Discovery. The journal will be the ninth in the AACR’s prestigious portfolio of scientific publications, including the highly cited journal, Cancer Discovery. The journal will feature high-impact, peer-reviewed articles describing major advances in basic, translational, and clinical research on all subtypes of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and associated diseases. More Search for more news in this Category |
 OA Monographs in Europe’s research libraries: best-practices, opportunities & challenges |
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Over 80% of surveyed LIBER libraries say they distribute Open Access (OA) books via a repository and include them in discovery services or catalogues. A further 40% publish OA books, or plan to do so, and a quarter provides library funding to pay author fees related to OA book publishing. These are among the insights from a recent questionnaire on OA Monographs, circulated in April by LIBER’s Open Access Working Group. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network: CDL releases planning initiative update, and new report |
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The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced the availability of a new report, ‘Finding Aid Aggregation at a Crossroads’ (‘Crossroads’). This report is a primary deliverable of the ‘Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network’ project, a one-year (October 2018 – September 2019) planning initiative convened by the California Digital Library (CDL), with the participation of representatives from multiple state and regional finding aid aggregations. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ARL-CNI Fall Forum to explore research libraries as catalytic leaders in a society in constant flux |
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Registration is now open for the 2019 Fall Forum, to be hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) on September 26 in Washington, DC. The theme of this year’s ARL-CNI Fall Forum is ‘Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux.’ The 2019 forum’s goal is to help authors understand what research libraries are doing as catalytic leaders now and to discuss and recommend what more needs to be done to contribute to the institutions, the research and learning ecosystem, and society. More Search for more news in this Category |
 DeepGreen partners with publishers and universities to distribute open access content to institutional repositories |
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DeepGreen initiative in Germany started into an advanced test phase with the publishing partners S.Karger AG, SAGE Publishing, MDPI, Frontiers and De Gruyter, as well as 27 universities from all over Germany, from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to University of Konstanz. DeepGreen aims at lowering the barriers for open access publishing by automatically delivering metadata and full text publications from participating publishers to authorised repositories at German universities. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
| The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (Building for the long term: Why business strategies are needed for community-owned infrastructure); Karin Wulf (Will E-Books feed University Presses — or eat them? part one); Gabrielle Samuel (Is openness in AI research always the answer?); Ramya Sriram (How can we combat the rise of fake news in science?); and Lakshmy Ramakrishnan (Scientific researchers must maintain integrity). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. |
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