Knowledgespeak Newsletter

 

24 November 2014

London Higher and SPARC report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies London Higher and SPARC Europe have commissioned a new report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies. The report 'Counting the Costs of Open Access' highlights the compliance burden associated with the move to open access publication of research articles, and for the first time identifies the administrative cost of making articles open access through the 'gold' and 'green' routes. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Gates Foundation may call for immediate free access for journal articles The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy is expected to be initiated by January 2017. Until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals as long as their paper is freely available within 12 months. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CERN launches Open Data Portal, makes first data of LHC experiments public CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will be of high value for the research community, and also be used for education purposes. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme State Library of Queensland opts for Ex Libris Rosetta Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has selected Ex Libris Rosetta to demonstrate management and preservation of its digital collections. Rosetta's unique end-to-end digital asset management and preservation framework will support the complete lifecycle of 'born digital' content - from ingest and acquisition through description to digital object management, preservation, and end user discovery. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oxford University Press and Emerge Education partner to support educational start-ups Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) recently announced a partnership with Emerge Education; confirming its commitment to supporting education technology (ed-tech) start-ups. The Emerge Education accelerator programme aims to improve educational outcomes worldwide by supporting innovative solutions and ideas from educational start-up companies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 'Buy It Now' option now available for HIP and e-Library users SirsiDynix has announced that 'Buy It Now' is now available for all HIP and e-Library users. These users will now be able to buy books, movies, and more from outside retailers through their library's website or OPAC. As part of SirsiDynix's Community Funded Services, a portion of each 'Buy It Now' purchase will be returned to the library, increasing revenue for libraries while providing increased buying options for patrons. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Palgrave Macmillan to focus on publishing more humanities and social science scholarship from Asia, especially China Academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced that it is focusing on publishing more humanities and social science scholarship from Asia, especially China. New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society is the first Palgrave Macmillan series that has been commissioned from China and will be launched in 2015. 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: Derek Sayer (Time to abandon the gold standard? Peer review for the REF falls far short of internationally accepted standards); Kent Anderson (Confounded Complexity — Pondering the Endless Upgrade Paths of Digital Publishing); Phill Jones (Are We Heading for a Librarian vs Publisher Data Sharing Space Race?); Todd A Carpenter (Amazon Won the dot-book Top-level Internet Domain: Should Publishers Care?); and Joe Wikert (Ebook subscription services as publisher affiliates). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

Home | News | Subscribe | Interviews | Blogs | Directory | Resources | Events | Links | Sitemap | About Us | About Scoope | Contact Us

© www.knowledgespeak.com