Qatar National Library Consortium and Elsevier sign combined reading and publishing pilot agreement – May 6, 2020
Qatar National Library Consortium and Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics, specialising in science and health, have announced a new pilot agreement for fully open access publishing in Qatar, which represents the company’s first combined reading and… Read More
ConTech Forum free to attend for Librarians and Furloughed workers – May 6, 2020
The ConTech Forum will be staged virtually on June 9, 2020. The Forum is designed to continue the conversations started at ConTech 2019 and start the process of looking forward to ConTech 2020. It continues the core themes at the intersection of content and technology, discussing… Read More
NLM migrates to Ex Libris Alma platform and Primo solution – May 6, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution to replace the institution’s Ex Libris Voyager® integrated library system (ILS)… Read More
OASPA 2020 Conference goes online – May 6, 2020
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has announced that its 2020 conference will take place online in September, instead of in Warsaw as originally planned. The 2020 conference will address open access at a time of global challenge, taking on… Read More
HighWire launches new hosting platform for Annals of Family Medicine – May 6, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire has launched a new, modern hosting platform for the Annals of Family Medicine, published as a collaborative effort between the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM),… Read More
NISO announces draft recommended practice for Reproducibility Badging and Definitions – May 6, 2020
The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) is accepting comments, through June 18, 2020, from the information community on the draft recommended practice, Reproducibility Badging and Definitions. Following on the landmark U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Read More
EDP Sciences journals now on Researcher making discoverability of content easier – May 6, 2020
EDP Sciences has announced its publication of nearly fifty journals on the Researcher platform. These journals join the existing collection of over 16,000 journals from a number of publishers. The EDP Sciences journals included on the platform include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Parasite, and ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling… Read More
