by ikehoe | Jan 15, 2019 | News, Open access, Publishing
January 15, 2019 Cambridge Elements are a new concept in academic publishing and scholarly communication, combining the best features of books and journals. They consist of original, concise, authoritative, and peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific research,...
by ikehoe | Jan 14, 2019 | News, OA journals, Open access, Publishing
Nature | January 14, 2019 | Dalmeet Singh Chawla The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access policies of its publisher, Elsevier, and launched a competing publication. The...
by Stephanie Boulogne | Oct 5, 2018 | Events, Open access, Publishing
Join us at the UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons for a public screening of the documentary, “Paywall”. Everyone is welcome. There will be popcorn provided! A public screening of the movie will be held on: Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Time:...
by ikehoe | Aug 27, 2018 | News, Publishing
Gary Price | August 22, 2018 The [Insta Novels] program, created by Mother [an independent advertising and creative agency] in New York and developed in partnership with the New York Public Library, aims to make some of the greatest stories ever written more...
by ikehoe | Apr 20, 2018 | News, Publishing
April 18, 2018 | Darmouth News The University Press of New England (UPNE) will shut down by the end of the calendar year, ending the publishing consortium that has for the last two years been run by Dartmouth College and Brandeis University. Following the closing, the...
by ikehoe | Jan 26, 2018 | Open education, Publishing
Molly Mclendon | Jan 23, 2018 Tech Library is a member of the Open Textbook Network and is spearheading a way to lower textbook costs for students. They release a call for proposals to gauge the interests of professors in this endeavour. The proposals are reviewed and...
