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"Three Biomedical Funders to Launch Open Access Journal"
| Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
Update: Here’s the Official News Release First issue expected one year from now (Summer 2012). From ScienceInsider: Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very best papers within a few weeks of submission. But few confirmed details are available about the […]
New Report from Publishing Research Consortium: "Journal Article Mining: A Research Study into Practices, Policies, Plans. . . and Promises"
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Interviews, News, Open Access, Publishing
Title: “Journal Article Mining: A Research study into Practices, Policies, Plans. . . and Promises” Authors: by Eefke Smit, STM and Maurits van der Graaf. Source: Publishers Research Council This is a study commissioned by PRC which offers the first comprehensive look at what publishers and others are doing, and plan to do, in both […]
eBook Update, New Titles, and More in New Issue of Project Muse News (June 2011)
| Academic Libraries, Libraries, New Issue, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports
Here are several items from the June 2011 issue of Project Muse News. 1. Coming in August: A University Press e-Book Consortium (UPeC) Beta Will be “highlighting the new integrated books and journals functionality” on MUSE. 2. UPCC, the University Press Content Consortium, Announces Members of Library Advisory Board A Library Advisory Board has been […]
Direct to Full Text By: Mikael Laakso1*, Patrik Welling1, Helena Bukvova2, Linus Nyman1, Bo-Christer Björk1, Turid Hedlund1 1 HANKEN School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, 2 Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Open Access (OA) is a model for publishing scholarly peer reviewed journals, made possible by the Internet. The full text of OA journals and articles […]
From an Announcement: The new discipline-specific, three-pane article design sets a new standard for both the presentation and the content of the scientific article. The prototypes, available in seven disciplines, are based on feedback from researchers with whom Elsevier cooperated throughout the development of the Article of the Future format. The improved format will begin […]
The following info is via a JSTOR web page. You can access the complete page here. Here’s a List if the 9 New Titles Added to JSTOR: American Periodicals (Arts & Sciences VIII) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerperi Coverage: Vol. 1 (Fall, 1991)–Vol. 17, No. 2 (2007) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Ohio State University Press ISSN: 1054-7479 The […]
From a SAGE News Release (PDF): SAGE is pleased to announce that their entire collection of online journal sites will soon be available in a mobile-optimized format, taking advantage of the HighWire Mobile Web interface. Readers visiting a SAGE journal site on their iPhone, Android or other smartphone device will automatically be redirected to the […]
New: Elsevier Enriches Online Articles with Google Maps
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Maps, Publishing
From Elsevier: Elsevier announced today that Google Maps functionality is now available in its journals. This new feature enriches online articles on SciVerse ScienceDirect with interactive maps, adapting to the needs of various scientific disciplines to visualize and interact with the author’s geographic data. Elsevier is one of the first publishers to introduce Google Maps […]
From Portico: As of today, participants in the Portico E-Journal Preservation Service will have access to 14 volumes of Journal of Pharmacy Teaching. The title was formerly published by Informa Healthcare and ceased publication in 2008. Journal of Pharmacy Teaching is no longer available through any online platform; therefore, this content has “triggered” and is […]
Tweets from the Project Muse Publishers Meeting in Baltimore
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Publishing, Special Libraries
The Project Muse Publishers Meeting 2011 took place in Charm City (aka Baltimore) on Thursday and a few attendees were tweeting about the presentations. You can review the tweets here or by using Bing or Google. The hashtag was #musepub2011 Note: At least for this search Bing Social Search returns more tweets than Google Realtime. […]
