Publishers Communication Group to Promote ISPG in India
The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) is pleased to announce that Publishers Communication Group (PCG) will be representing the ISPG collections of journals to...
Dr. Howard E. Michel Elected 2014 IEEE President-elect
IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced that Dr. Howard E. Michel, Associate Professor of Electrical...
Saudi Digital Library and Nature Publishing Group sign agreement
The Saudi Digital Library (SDL), part of The Saudi Ministry of Higher Education, has signed a major agreement with Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Thirty...
Elsevier in deal with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University to expand access to scientific...
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today it has reached an agreement with Russia's Far Eastern...
Google Books Case Dismissed—Victory for Fair Use and Libraries
On November 14, Judge Denny Chin of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the digitization of millions of books from...
University of Alabama Libraries Join HathiTrust
The University of Alabama has become one of the newest partners of Hathitrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a...
Diane Grob Schmidt elected ACS president-elect for 2014
The members of the American Chemical Society have elected Diane Grob Schmidt, a section head at Procter & Gamble, as ACS president-elect for 2014. During...
ORCID announces changes in member agreements and new authentication-only API
As part of ORCID’s one-year anniversary, we have reviewed our member agreements to incorporate feedback received from the community. We are pleased to report...
Wiley Wins IT Project Team of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is pleased to learn that Wiley colleagues are the recipients of the IT Project Team of the Year Award...
ALA launches Policy Revolution! initiative for libraries
The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) will immediately begin work on a national public policy agenda and action plan...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory launches bioRxiv, a freely accessible, citable preprint server for biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced the launch of a new stage in the evolution of life science communication -- a new, free service,...
Wiley to provide emergency access to medical literature in support of Typhoon Haiyan relief...
Wiley will offer free access to medical literature in support of Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts to those affected by the disaster and to those...