SPARC applauds Senate Committee action on public access legislation The Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) has passed S. 779, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, unanimously by voice vote and moved it to the full Senate for consideration. This marks the first time the Senate has acted on… Read More »
Wiley joins list of document suppliers for FIZ AutoDoc´s pay-per-view option Wiley, the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, has announced that it will be available as a new document supplier for FIZ AutoDoc’s pay-per-view option. Thus, articles from nearly 1,600 Wiley journals, hosted on Wiley Online Library,… Read More »
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to bring FASTR Act up for mark-up on July 29 After a month of intense conversations and negotiations, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) will bring the ‘Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act’ up for mark-up on July 29, 2015. The language… Read More »
Publishing sector has the lowest level of illegal downloads in the entertainment industry, notes UK survey Publishing sector reportedly has the lowest level of illegal downloads in the entertainment industry, with book piracy at half the rate of copyright theft in film and music. For publishers, fresh from winning a landmark ruling forcing internet service… Read More »
BioMed Central launches checklist to improve reproducibility of studies published in its journals Open access publisher BioMed Central has launched a pilot checklist to improve the reproducibility of studies published in its journals. The checklist has been produced according to NIH guidelines for reporting preclinical research. It addresses three areas of reporting: experimental design and… Read More »
Springer content now available across ReadCube platform STM publisher Springer has signed an agreement with publishing technology company ReadCube to enhance and increase the discoverability of its journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings via ReadCube’s web, desktop and mobile applications. More than eight million scientific documents on SpringerLink have been indexed by ReadCube’s Discover… Read More »
STM publishing experts form financial advisory firm STM Advisers LLC dedicated to STM and academic publishing and scholarly communications Scientific, technical, and medical publishing experts Joseph Esposito, Michael Clarke, and David Lamb have announced the formation of STM Advisers LLC (“STMA”), the first financial and strategic advisory firm dedicated to scientific, technical, and medical (STM)… Read More »
Elsevier unveils Health Library to accelerate patient education, engagement and outcomes via direct access to trusted content STM publisher Elsevier has launched a consumer-focused Health Library designed to engage patients by facilitating access to accurate, timely, easy-to-understand content on thousands of healthcare topics and issues. The digital library, developed by the Patient Engagement group in… Read More »
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 »