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 Comparable academic institutions pay different prices for journal access, says PNAS report |
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) recently published an analysis, according to which, comparable academic institutions pay different prices for journal access. A report published in ScienceInsider states that some universities are paying nearly twice what universities of seemingly similar size and research output pay for access to the very same journals.
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SAGE to publish Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities journal in association with TASH |
Academic publisher SAGE and TASH, an international leader in disability advocacy, have announced that SAGE will begin publishing the journal Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), beginning June 2014. Published quarterly, RPSD is an internationally acclaimed journal that publishes research on the full array of issues related to individuals with disabilities.
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Knowledge Unlatched (UK) selected as 2014 winner of IFLA/Brill Open Access Award |
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and scholarly publisher Brill have announced that Knowledge Unlatched, from the UK, has been selected as this year's winner of the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access Award was created in 2013 for initiatives in the area of open access monograph publishing. This year the jury unanimously has chosen Knowledge Unlatched (United Kingdom) as the most outstanding and game-changing initiative in the field.
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 La Trobe University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo |
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that La Trobe University in Melbourne has selected the Ex Libris Alma library management solution and the Primo discovery and delivery solution. The University Library is replacing a number of systems with the cloud-based Alma and Primo platform for unified resource management and discovery.
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National Institutes of Health appoints nine individuals to the NIH Council of Councils |
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the appointment of nine individuals to the NIH Council of Councils. The council was established to advise the NIH Director on policies and activities of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI), including making recommendations on research that represents important areas of emerging scientific opportunities, rising public health challenges, or knowledge gaps that deserve special emphasis or would otherwise benefit from strategic planning and coordination.
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 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (How Important Are Library Sales to the University Press? One Case Study); Bonnie Swoger (Does the scientific journal have a future?); Tom Cochrane (Why open access is the next frontier for science); Kent Anderson (This Just In from the 1990s — We're Doomed, Doomed, Doomed, Sayeth the Editor of VentureBeat) and Steve Fuller (A modest proposal to solve the problem of peer review: Treat evaluation as an in-house publishing function). 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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