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Information Today September 13, 2010 |
Ebook Collections Coming to Project MUSE Platform Project MUSE, a provider of humanities and social science periodical content for libraries, announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and product offerings. |
Information Today August 24, 2009 |
ProQuest Adds New Content to Periodicals Archive Online ProQuest, LLC announced that Periodicals Archive Online offers three more ways to build a library's research archive with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7, the launch of Collection 8, and the development of 5 additional years of coverage for journals in Collections 1-5. |
Information Today August 10, 2009 |
ALPSP and Swets Announce Launch of 2010 ALJC Collection The The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' Learned Journals Collection can be accessed by libraries through SwetsWise Online Content or through ALJC's own web portal. |
Information Today February 5, 2009 |
ALPSP eBooks Collection Launched by Ingram Digital The much anticipated new ebooks cooperative service has launched, enabling Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers members (ALPSP) to offer multipublisher collections to libraries. |
Information Today January 30, 2014 |
Duke University Press Ebooks Find New Home Duke University Press teamed up with HighWire Press to create a new platform for the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection, which will be found at read.dukeupress.edu. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Information Today December 20, 2012 |
Summon Service to Index Content From German Publishers Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, announced that the company is working with several German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon discovery service. |
Information Today February 25, 2014 |
HighWire Press Augments Articles With Altmetric Data HighWire Press and Altmetric, a London-based startup focused on scholarly literature, signed an agreement to offer altmetrics integration for publications hosted on the HighWire Open Platform. |
Information Today June 6, 2011 |
More Publishers to Participate in UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their ebooks in the initiative. |
Information Today September 12, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Business Collection EBSCO Information Services launched eBook Business Collection, a new assortment of ebooks for academic libraries from publishers such as Wiley and Cambridge University Press. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
Information Today July 18, 2011 |
Cambridge University Press to Launch Platform for Other Academic Publishers From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with ebooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 |
HighWire Press Rolls Out Collaboration and Content Collection Toolset HighWire Press launched Stackly, a web-based toolset for content collection, organization, storage, and peer-to-peer collaboration that integrates into publication sites so publishers can promote content and engage with researchers. |
Information Today December 8, 2003 Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
Information Today February 6, 2012 |
SAGE Journals Available Via Mobile Devices SAGE announced that its entire online journal collection is now available in a mobile-optimized format with the help of HighWire Press' Mobile Web Interface. |
Information Today October 22, 2013 |
OCLC Adds Collections to WorldCat OCLC finalized agreements with a group of global publishers that will add more electronic collections to the WorldCat database. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today February 16, 2012 |
China/Asia on Demand Metadata Accessible via EBSCO Discovery Service The agreement allows for metadata from this valuable collection of research literature from Asia to be added to the Base Index of EDS. T |
Information Today May 29, 2014 |
Knowledge Unlatched Rolls Out Pilot Results Its mission was to create a sustainable route to open access for specialist scholarly books by working with libraries and publishers to share the costs of OA. |
Information Today February 11, 2014 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Religion Collection The collection includes ebook selections for its religion-focused student and scholarly customers titled eBook Religion Collection, which debuted with more than 4,100 titles from 150-plus publishers. |
Information Today February 26, 2009 |
Royal Society Journals Launched on HighWire Platform The platform delivers the Royal Society's internationally renowned science journals, including the longest scientific journal archive, dating from 1665. It provides dramatically enhanced Web 2.0 functionality and library-friendly features. |
Information Today May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition. |
Information Today December 19, 2011 |
New Project MUSE Platform Goes Live Jan. 1, 2012 At the launch of the new platform, more than 14,000 books from 66 university presses and related scholarly publishers will be available alongside MUSE's more than 500 electronic journals. |
Information Today October 30, 2008 |
Google Reaches Settlement Agreement with Publishers and Authors The settlement would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search. |
D-Lib October 2002 Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
Searcher May 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy. |
Information Today August 9, 2010 |
ARL Promotes Member Use of Large-Scale Digitization Principles Special collections often include valuable and unique materials, but also incur special responsibilities for their stewards. |
Information Today March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks |
D-Lib March 2001 Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: Planning Enduring Repositories for Digital Scholarly Communication |
D-Lib October 2000 Carol Hansen Montgomery |
Electronic Journal Collections Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations... |
Information Today September 8, 2011 |
HighWire Introduces Five-Star Article Rating Feature on SAGE Open HighWire Press once again demonstrates its support of independent scholarly publishers with a tool designed for open access publications. |
D-Lib December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
Information Today December 2002 Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
D-Lib December 2008 Bonita Wilson |
Evolution in the Area of Digital Scholarly Communication Journal editors or librarians from 1958 would be amazed at the technology we have in 2008, but they would have no trouble recognizing the fundamentals of today's scholarly publications. |
Information Today December 2003 Paula Hane |
Stable and Poised for Growth Ingenta is marking its 5-year anniversary of serving the scholarly publishing community. Founded in 1998 through a public/private partnership with the University of Bath, the U.K.-based Ingenta has grown quickly and is now close to profitability. An interview with Ingenta CEO Mark Rowse. |
Information Today January 7, 2014 |
OASPA Releases Scholarly Publishing Principles The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association posted a set of 16 principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing on its website. |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today August 12, 2010 |
LibraryThing Announces New Feature For Publishers LibraryThing, an online service to help people catalog their books easily, has announced a new feature for publishers called LibraryThing for Publishers. |
D-Lib September 2004 Van de Sompel et al. |
Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve Opportunities abound in the world of 21 st century publishing and the discussion on transforming scholarly communication must move beyond the debate of subscription-based vs. open access publication. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today February 2001 Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
Information Today August 2003 |
NewsBytes Nstein Partners with BIOSIS, D&B... Plosker Launches Consulting Group... General Science Abstracts Now Available via EBSCOhost... Ingenta Signs Three Association Publishers... OeBF Announces Program... etc. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Information Today March 25, 2014 |
DOAJ Updates Application Form The Directory of Open Access Journals form now includes as many quality indicators as possible as well as extensive information about the journals that publishers need to supply. |
Information Today October 25, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Thomson Reuters Announces Book Citation Index--Scheduled for Release in 2Q 2011 Thomson Reuters announced a new product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes. Vice president for editorial development and publisher relations, James Testa, talks about the story behind this announcement. |
Information Today December 10, 2007 |
ARL Publishes Report on the Print-to-Electronic Transition for Journals The report examines the issues associated with the migration from dual-format publishing toward electronic-only publication of journals. |
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects. |
Information Today August 2000 |
CrossRef Now on the Web CrossRef, a collaborative reference-linking service, has announced that it has activated its first links on the Internet and has gone live. "CrossRef is now well on its way to becoming the comprehensive source for linking journal articles." |