From the monthly archives: June 2010
Katina Strauch, editor of Against the Grain, speaks with Wim Van der Stelt, EVP, Business Development at Springer, about Springer Open Choice. View original press release here.
ATG: Can you tell us more about your detailed financial analysis? Is there a URL that will reveal more specifics? Can you tell us the 30 journals that are [...]
Read More... →Attendees at this year’s Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO, held June 12-16 in New Orleans, supported the Haiti Reads library project with a book and fund-raising drive. More than 3,400 special librarians, knowledge professionals and information industry representatives attended the conference in New Orleans. Attendees purchased children’s classics in New Orleans area [...]
Read More... →OCLC, the world’s largest library cooperative, and LYRASIS, the largest regional library membership organization in the United States, have signed a new partnership agreement that will provide increased consulting, education and engagement programs for WorldCat and new cooperative Web-scale library management services. The new partnership will also streamline administrative services that will provide increased efficiencies [...]
Read More... →Springer has analyzed the uptake of its open access option Open Choice for articles published in 2009 and is pleased to share its impact on 2011 pricing.
Springer Open Choice allows authors to publish their article with open access in exchange for payment of a fee, for the majority of its journals. The articles are [...]
Read More... →Press release from ProQuest issued June 23, 2010:
ProQuest, an information technology firm supporting global research, and the Getty Research Institute (GRI), dedicated to advancing understanding of the world’s artistic heritage, announce an agreement that will allow ProQuest to take over the indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), providing a secure future for [...]
Read More... →Portico (www.portico.org/digital-preservation/) is pleased to announce that John Wiley & Sons has entered into an archive license agreement to preserve its collection of more than 8,000 online scholarly monographs. With this agreement, Wiley expands its relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with Wiley’s commitment to deposit their entire list of e-journals to the [...]
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