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16 July 2012

European Research Council joins UK PubMed Central The European Research Council (ERC), one of Europe's biggest funders of scientific research, has announced that it will be joining UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). The ERC joins 18 existing funders of UKPMC and, in recognition of the increased representation from Europe, the service will be renamed Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) from November 1, 2012. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UK set to unveil plans for free access to publicly funded research by 2014 The UK is set to unveil plans to make publicly funded research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014. In an interview with the Guardian, David Willetts, the universities and science minister, expects a full transformation to the open approach over two years. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BMC Medicine article finds open access journals reaching same scientific impact as subscription journals Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that its OA journal BMC Medicine has published an article which compares the scientific impact of open access with traditional subscription publishing and has found that both of these publishing business models produce high quality peer reviewed articles. BMC Medicine is the flagship medical journal of the BMC series. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO sponsors scholarship to 2012 Charleston Conference Information services provider EBSCO is sponsoring a $1,000 scholarship for a qualifying librarian or paraprofessional to attend the 32nd Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. The event is scheduled for November 7-10, 2012, in Charleston, S.C. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Institution of Engineering and Technology set to launch new Digital Library The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced plans to further expand its digital offering with a significantly redeveloped and enhanced Digital Library. The new Digital Library, developed on Publishing Technology's pub2web platform, is designed to improve the speed and ease with which academic and corporate users can access the IET's 3,000 eBook chapters and 185,000 journal articles, which stretch back to 1872. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IEEE Journals report significant gains in 2011 impact factor rankings Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced that the organisation has maintained its position as one of the top publishers of science and technology journals. According to the 2011 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR) released in June 2012, IEEE journals sustained their status as premier scholarly publications, earning high rankings in the Impact Factor report. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AIP emphasises commitment to deliver world-class content AIP Publishing has reinforced its commitment to deliver world-class content, accessibility and outreach. The publisher's 2013 online journal pricing represents a 4% increase, which applies to every title, across every tier. Beginning November 2012, AIP's online journals will be hosted via Publishing Technology's pub2web. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ebrary adds thousands of titles to Government Complete ebrary, a ProQuest business, has added thousands of relevant e-books across acquisition models, which provide libraries with the highest return on investment when combined. With this initiative, the company seeks to help government libraries acquire e-books more strategically. Diversifying acquisition models is a key component of ebrary's three-step approach: Transition, Diversify, Streamline. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Mike Shatzkin (Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject); Stevan Harnad (Overselling the Importance and Urgency of CC-BY for Peer-Reviewed Scholarly and Scientific Research); Mark Carrigan (Do 'prestigious' journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world); and Martyn Daniels (So How Will Digital Growth Impact Physical Decline?). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

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