German Consortium Baden-Wuerttemberg gains access to about 2,500 electronically published journals from Elsevier The Consortium Baden-Wuerttemberg, an alliance of the scientific libraries of the federal state located in the south-west of Germany, has signed an agreement with STM publisher Elsevier to provide 52 universities and institutions of higher education with comprehensive access to approximately 2,500… Read More »
Major repository networks agree to collaborate on data exchange, technological development, and metadata Three major regional open access repository networks and aggregators (OpenAire, LA Referencia, and SHARE), along with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Center for Open Science (COS) met in Charlottesville, Virginia, to discuss synergies and potential areas of collaboration on… Read More »
McGraw-Hill Education acquires equity stake in global mobile language learning platform, busuu McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has taken a Euro 6 million (approximately $6.5 million) minority equity stake in busuu, the world’s largest social network for language learning with more than 55 million users. The transaction includes an agreement that will give McGraw-Hill… Read More »
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives to host The Markets: Global Publishing Summit A new conference to kick off the Frankfurt Book Fair, to be held the day before the fair officially opens (14-18 October 2015), will set the theme for the world’s largest industry meeting: ‘The Markets – Global Publishing Summit’ is the… Read More »
Knovel’s engineering content now discoverable via EBSCO Discovery Service STM publisher Elsevier has announced that content from Knovel, an engineering decision-support solution, is discoverable through the EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). The integration allows mutual customers to combine answers from high quality engineering references within a unified search platform, as well as directly access Knovel subscription… Read More »
AAAS acquires Peer Review Evaluation service to help promote transparency and public trust in science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, has announced the acquisition of ‘Peer Review Evaluation’ (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original… Read More »
Elsevier unveils seven new food science and safety books at Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT15 conference STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of seven new food science books, including Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems edited by Steven Ricke, Janet Donaldson and Carol Phillips. In this book, experts in the field discuss recent… Read More »
Really? Dear Librarian, Wiley has introduced a new security feature for access to articles through Wiley Online Library. This is in order to prevent systematic downloads of content and also to thwart hackers from creating other security risks for both library and vendor. You may have encountered CAPTCHA challenge (see graphic below) after completing… Read More »
Elsevier and US National Cancer Institute implement reciprocal linking between research articles and datasets STM publisher Elsevier and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) have implemented two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets stored in NCI’s cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) data portal. Reciprocal linking between data portals and scientific literature ensures that the… Read More »
Oxford University Press and the European Society of Cardiology launch European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) have announced the launch of European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes (EHJQCCO), the first issue of which was… Read More »