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From ProQuest: ProQuest and Elsevier Health are expanding their relationship for licensing of the Lancet family of medical journals to include 36 additional acclaimed health science titles from Elsevier in ProQuest’s information products. The new three-year agreement enables the full text of these journals to be discovered within the context of libraries’ entire ProQuest collections. [Clip] […]
From Research4Life: Research4Life partners announced today that the content available through its collaborative public-private partnership has dramatically increased since 2011 to reach 17,000 peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases. Research4Life provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading […]
Standards: CrossRef Announces FundRef Pilot to Standardize Funding Source Information for Scholarly Publications
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|From CrossRef: CrossRef has announced FundRef, a pilot collaboration between scholarly publishers and funding agencies that will standardize the names of research funders and add grant numbers attributed in journal articles or other scholarly documents. The collaboration would allow researchers, publishers, and funding agencies to track the published research that results from specific funding bodies. […]
The Economist On Open Access and Scholarly Publishing
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|From The Economist Article, “Open Sesame”: Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: a licence to print money. An annual subscription to Tetrahedron, a chemistry journal, will cost your university library $20,269; a year of the Journal of Mathematical Sciences will set you back $20,100. In 2011 Elsevier, the biggest […]
From an Elsevier Announcement: Elsevier has launched a pilot project aimed at improving the quality of peer review. Review reports for articles in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology will be published alongside the article on SciVerse ScienceDirect. The pilot will last until the end of 2012. If successful, the initiative will also be applied to other […]
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and Linda Hall Library Form Global Resources Partnership
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|From a CRL Announcement: CRL and the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology have entered into a strategic partnership to preserve and develop historical research collections in the fields of science, technology and engineering. The partnership will build upon the rich holdings of print serials in those fields assembled by the two institutions […]
Title The influence of free encyclopedias on science Author Sarah Huggett Source Research Trends* From the Article Since its launch in 2001 Wikipedia has seen incredible growth worldwide, counting more than 21 million articles published in around 280 languages (including nearly 4 million articles in English) in 2012 (1). Wikipedia has grown in size (number […]
AAP: 81 Scholarly Journal Publishers Oppose Federal Research Public Access Act
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|Here we go again. Some of the publishers who signed the letter include Cambridge U. Press, Elsevier, Springer, McGraw-Hill, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer (Complete List Below). From the Association of American Publishers: Today, 81 U.S. scholarly journal publishing organizations expressed their strong opposition to the third introduction of the Federal Research Public […]
First, the news earlier today that Elsevier was pulling its support for the RWA. Now, this news from Alexander Howard: “RIP Research Works Act” I just received a joint statement from Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, regarding H.R. 3699, the Research Works Act. Here’s the too long/didn’t […]
Elsevier Withdraws Support For the Research Works Act But Continues to Oppose Government Mandates
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|UPDATE: Full Text of Letter From Elsevier to Mathematics Community Released today. It includes the following paragraph: To make clear that we are committed to wider access, we have made the archives of 14 core mathematics journals open, from four years after publication, back to 1995, the year when we started publishing digitally. All current […]