by Katy Nelson | Jul 7, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
According to a recent article from the Times Higher Education, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) is planning to ask Dutch editors of Elsevier journals to step down from their positions in order to put pressure on the publisher while the...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 29, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
Academic institutions and governmental agencies in South Africa have signed the Confederation of Open Access Repositories’ (COAR) petition against scholarly publishing giant Elsevier and its new sharing policy. They join a host of institutions from around the...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 25, 2015 | News, Open data, Open scholarship, Research impact
The Online Community Library Center (OCLC) has released a new book about their work with library linked data. The book is called Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC's Experiments with New Models of Resource Description. Read more about it...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 25, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
Springer, the scholarly publishing giant, has acquired three important open access journals: Living Reviews in Relativity, Living Reviews in Solar Physics and Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics. The earliest of these journals was launched in 1998 by...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 18, 2015 | News, Research impact
Last Thursday, Thompson Reuters released their annual Journal Citation Report (JCR) which includes its very influential Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The Report can be accessed through the library website. Read more about the report, the JIF and other citation metric...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 16, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
Former Elsevier president John J. Regazzi (now dean of the College of Information and Computer Science at Long Island University) has recently authored a book entitled Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker. In an...
