From the monthly archives: September 2011
Maney Publishing Re-Launches Two Key Health Science Titles
Maney Publishing is pleased to announce the relaunch of two key titles. From 2012 Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology will become Pathogens and Global Health and Annals of Tropical Paediatrics will relaunch as Paediatrics and International Child Health. For more information or to view full [...]
Read More... →by Jonathan H. Harwell, Georgia Southern University
Princeton University’s faculty have followed the lead of Harvard, MIT, and others with an open access policy. Get the scoop at The Chronicle, along with the recent announcement of the newly formed Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI).
Meanwhile, a high-level [...]
Read More... →Name: Kevin Sayar
Title: President and General Manager
Organization: ebrary
Address: 318 Cambridge Ave, Palo Alto, CA
Phone: 650-475-8274
Fax: 1-650-475-8881
Email: kelley@ebrary.com
Website: www.ebrary.com
Born and Lived: Born in Upland, CA (November 20, 1967) Lived in Southern, CA until age 5 while my father completed his Masters at Cal Poly, Pomona. [...]
Read More... →Swets is pleased to award our 2011 Charleston Conference Scholarship to Amy Elizabeth Hoseth, Assistant Professor and Liaison Librarian at Colorado State University.
Keeping with the theme of the conference, “Something’s Gotta Give,” scholarship contestants were asked to describe what has to “give” in order to sustain viable scholarship and why. Hoseth’s winning essay explored the [...]
Read More... →by Tom Gilson, Associate Editor (gilsont@cofc.edu)
Perhaps the biggest news item of this week is the lawsuit filed against the HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, and four other universities. The Authors Guild, Inc. and two other author associations as well as eight individuals are suing the HathiTrust and the universities for what they claim is [...]
Read More... →The movement to make research freely available got a high-profile boost this week with the news that Princeton University’s faculty has unanimously adopted an open-access policy. “The principle of open access is consistent with the fundamental purposes of scholarship,” said the faculty advisory committee that proposed the resolution.
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