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March 17, 2015 |
NISO Studies Patron Privacy The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded NISO (National Information Standards Organization) a grant to develop the Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems.   |
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November 2000 |
Mellon Foundation Grant for Digital Repository Economic Model Awarded to MIT Libraries The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has donated $215,000 to MIT to develop an economic model to maintain digital documents within an academic research library... |
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April 19, 2012 |
OAPEN Launches Beta Version of Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) announced the launch of the beta version of Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an open access license. |
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November 10, 2015 |
Google Scholar Indexes OAPEN-Hosted Monographs The OAPEN Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes the publication of academic OA books and provides a platform for the full-text dissemination of OA titles. |
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January 20, 2015 |
NEH and Mellon Foundation Subsidize Ebook Conversions The Humanities Open Book Program is a joint pilot grant program that plans to facilitate the conversion of out-of-print books in the humanities. |
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October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
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February 26, 2015 |
NASIG and SSP Collaborate on Information Policy Event NASIG and the Society for Scholarly Publishing will host a joint full-day program, Evolving Information Policies & Their Implications: A Conversation for Librarians & Publishers. |
Information Today
August 20, 2013
Barbara Quint |
OA Rules at the University of California The largest public research university in the world recently committed all of its 10 campuses to open access. |
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August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books. |
Information Today
December 18, 2008 |
Task Force Issues Interim Report on Digital Preservation and Access This report cites an urgent need to identify sustainable economic models to provide access to the ever-growing amount of digital information. |
Information Today
March 29, 2010 |
UC's California Digital Library Launches DataCite Archive for Research Data The University of California's California Digital Library has become a founding member of the international DataCite consortium, a group of 12 leading academic and scientific memory institutions worldwide, providing data publishing opportunities for researchers |
Information Today
May 12, 2015 |
Open Library of Humanities Gains Participants Three universities joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system: Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Exeter, and the University of Sussex. |
Information Today
October 13, 2015 |
The Open Library of Humanities Debuts The Open Library of Humanities, an organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no charges to authors, launched after 2 years of planning. |
Information Today
September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
Information Today
September 24, 2007 |
New Digital Preservation and Access Task Force Formed The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are funding a blue-ribbon task force to address the issue of economic sustainability for digital preservation and persistent access. |
Information Today
August 7, 2014 |
CrossRef and the CDL Partner to Increase Discoverability CrossRef signed an agreement with the CDL (California Digital Library) that allows library publishers to participate in CrossRef's scholarly communications hub. |
Information Today
March 7, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
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
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
February 19, 2009 |
WebJunction Offers Guide to Library Management Competencies WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has released Library Management Competencies, to help library managers be more successful in their work. |
Information Today
February 11, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
Introducing the Open Library of Humanities While the open access movement has been moving at dizzying speeds, its strongest support from academia has been from the science community. But a group of academics and OA supporters are aiming to change that through the Open Library of Humanities. |
Information Today
November 8, 2012 |
ProQuest Participates in Early Modern OCR Project The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books to the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP) at Texas A&M. |
Information Today
April 22, 2014 |
LIBLICENSE Draft Open for Public Comment The Center for Research Libraries announced that its North American working group will revise the LIBLICENSE Standard Licensing Agreement model license with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
Information Today
March 15, 2010 |
Infobase Ebooks Now Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library This allows libraries to provide access to popular ebooks from Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing along with more than 4,500 existing electronic reference titles, expanding the library's offerings while avoiding duplicated resources. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project |
Information Today
May 8, 2008 |
The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Adopts Plagiarism Detection Tool The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters announced that it will be incorporating the iThenticate checking tool into its submission and peer-review process in Manuscript Central's online workflow system. |
Information Today
November 2004
Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
Joint Venture Plans to Expand Project Euclid Cornell University Library and Duke University Press have established a joint venture to expand the services of the online information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers. |
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 11, 2014 |
LIBLICENSE Model License Agreement Gets a Makeover This updated license incorporates library best practices as well as advice from legal and publishing professionals. |
Information Today
April 24, 2008
Corilee Christou |
Publishing Technology, PLC Powers BBC Monitoring Library Publishers must adapt to survive and embrace all forms of content delivery and all media. |
Information Today
October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets. |
Information Today
December 8, 2011 |
EBSCO Discovery Service Offers New Open Access Humanities and Social Science Content The complementary platforms represent a complete electronic publishing system dedicated to promoting research and open access publishing of tens of thousands of scientific papers. |
Information Today
October 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Information Today
August 2006
Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
Information Today
July 26, 2004
Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. |
Information Today
May 2008
Marji McClure |
Case Study: Open Access Yields Solid Growth for Hindawi Hindawi was just like any other publisher for its first 10 years. But that changed in February 2007 when Hindawi, which had started to test the waters of open access (OA) journal articles a few years earlier, completed its full conversion to an OA publishing model. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2012 |
EBook Buzz: University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon What's the buzz about? EBook Buzz, ONLINE's newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS to Award $154.8 Million to States to Improve Library Services... Wiley Launches Premium Open Access Journal Advanced Science... Mellon Grant Awarded to NISO to Explore Patron Privacy in Library and Publisher Systems... |
Wall Street & Technology
April 17, 2008
Penny Crosman |
Merrill Lynch Speeds Up Application Development Merrill Lynch developers are turning Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundation framework into a customized platform for rapid application development. |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
Laura Howes |
New publishing models test the water Two new companies have launched in the biomedical field to take the academic publishing industry further into uncharted territory. How they suceed may affect the whole industry. |
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
September 22, 2015 |
NPG-Palgrave Macmillan Survey Shows Perceptions of OA Publishing The survey shows a growing confidence among scientists in the quality of open access publications. |
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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. |
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October 13, 2009 |
SPARC Reviews Income Models for Open Access Publishing The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open access publishers in a new guide, Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. |
Information Today
July 3, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015
Richard Huffine |
Distinctions Emerge in U.S. Government Plans for Expanding Access to Research Research funded by the U.S. government is finally going to be available for anyone to read and cite, based on plans laid out by the agencies that administer the funding |
Information Today
January 29, 2015 |
LYRASIS Signs On to Support the Open Library of Humanities LYRASIS agreed to become the Open Library of Humanities' exclusive North American membership and administrative agent. |
