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eBook Briefs: News from Project Muse, Elsevier, Safari Books Online, and Ingram
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Publishing
+ Project MUSE Announces Special Introductory Offer Initiative for UPCC Book Collections + Elsevier Announces New 2012 Frontlist eBooks Collection on SciVerse ScienceDirect Available for Advance Purchase Additional Info Here. + Safari Books Online selects Ingram Content Group to expand its e-content library Education, technology, and business publishers worldwide can now expand the reach of […]
"Academic Libraries Expand Their Publishing Services, but With Limited Resources" by Jennifer Howard
From Jennifer Howard’s Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Publishing services offered by academic libraries are “expanding and professionalizing,” says a new report based on a survey of library directors at research and liberal-arts institutions. But those publishing operations are often still hampered by a lack of full-time staffing and by the small scale […]
From a Royal Society Announcement: The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now […]
"Building arXiv’s Self-Sustaining Future", Simons Foundation Awards arXiv $60,000 Planning Grant
| Academic Libraries, Awards, Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
From the Cornell University Library: Thanks to a generous award from the Simons Foundation, Cornell University Library will take a major step toward building a permanent governance model for arXiv, the free scientific repository that has revolutionized the way scientists share information. The Simons Foundation, which is based in New York City, has provided a […]
From the Announcement: HighWire Press and TEMIS, leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, announced today they entered into a strategic technology and business partnership. Under the agreement, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers. […]
Academic Libraries "Texas A&M Libraries Promote Use of Open Access Journals"
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
From The Battalion Online (Texas A&M University): In addition to requiring that authors transfer all their copyrights away, publishers collect heavy tolls from high prices on textbooks and journal subscriptions, said outreach librarian Gail Clement with Texas A&M University Libraries. Clement said that the $1 per year increase in the library student fee just covers […]
PLoS Director of Publishing Moves to New OA Initiative
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing
From The Official PLoS Blog: The Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Max Planck Society have announced today that Mark Patterson (PLoS Director of Publishing) will be joining Randy Schekman (Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at Berkeley) to lead the creation of a new high-profile open-access biomedical research journal to […]
Freebie Alert: 22 Emerald Health and Social Care journals in Free Access for World Mental Health Day
From Emerald: In support of World Mental Health Day, held annually on 10 October to raise public awareness about mental health issues worldwide, Emerald Group Publishing is providing free access to its complete collection of health and social care journals. In total, 22 journals can be read online from 10 October for a period of […]
Available for iOS today. Android app coming in early 2012. From the RSC Web Site: The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched a free mobile app that is now available on iTunes. RSC Mobile provides readers with access to search RSC journal content from the RSC Publishing Platform. Users at any institution or organisation that […]
Note: All of the articles on both lists are available for free. From SAGE: The list recognizes more than 100 articles that were the most downloaded and most cited [according to Journal Citation Report 2010] published from 2009-2010 and the most downloaded articles from SAGE ‘s deep backfile. The list covers articles across 39 disciplines, […]
