From the monthly archives: October 2009
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) now offers remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch (http://www.nature.com/opensearch). The new service allows application software to query nature.com, and returns results in a machine-readable format that can be reused and redisplayed.
As a demonstration of the new OpenSearch service NPG has developed nature.com search desktop widgets. Available [...]
Read More... →The University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR, joining a new effort to improve access to current scholarship for faculty, students, and librarians.
The University of Illinois Press, the not-for-profit publishing division of the University of Illinois, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, announced an [...]
Read More... →ProQuest, an information and technology company, will host the Michigan Chapter of the International Usability Professional’s Association’s (MIUPA) “Start a UX Movement at Your Company” workshop at its Ann Arbor, Michigan headquarters on Wednesday, October 28. The workshop brings together a group of interface designers, usability engineers, information architects, students, and other information professionals to [...]
Read More... →The recording of the OA week webinar (A Q&A session with five different publishers working with Open Access) hosted by OASPA on 20th October is now available at:
http://www.oaspa.org/webinars/oaweek2009/index.html
Read More... →The suite of model licenses on www.licensingmodels.com has been updated and new model licenses added. The site was originally created in 1999, and updated in 2001. It has now been reviewed, updated and extended.
There are now six up-to-date model licenses: for single academic institutions, academic consortia, public libraries, and corporate/special [...]
PIRUS 2, supported by JISC, the United Kingdom Joint Information Systems Committee, is a co-operative project involving publishers and repositories, which will develop a set of standards, protocols and processes to enable publishers, repositories and other organizations to generate and share authoritative, trustworthy usage statistics for the individual articles and other items that they host.
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