Today’s menu: A Cost of Knowledge petition; a CCC partnership on motion pictures; a new launch from Nature; Medical History published by Cambridge UP; a report from UK’s RIN; free app from Questia; and Credo’s Literati is on the market.
Cost of Knowledge petition: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier
An article on the Forbes website reports on what it refers to as “a revolt of the academics who provide both the papers and the readership” for Elsevier. The article also points to “a petition running for academics to sign…” According to author Tim Worstall, “judging by the reaction of one of the academic blogs, Crooked Timber, this is going to spread far beyond just mathematics or even the hard sciences.”
CCC and MPLC Partner for New Corporate Movie License
“Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and provider of licensing solutions, has announced the launch of its Motion Picture License in partnership with the Motion Picture Licensing Corp…”
NPG launches interactive global science calendar
“Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has launched an expanded online calendar of global scientific events. The calendar provides users with a new way to search for science events, which can also be personalized and synced to a personal online or mobile calendar. The calendar is hosted on nature.com.”
“Cambridge University Press has announced that it will publish the leading journal ‘Medical History’ from January 2012. ‘Medical History’, an international journal for the history of medicine and related sciences, is embarking on an exciting new journey with Cambridge Journals.”
A New UK Research Information Network (RIN) Report
According to Clifford Lynch at CNI the “UK Research Information Network (RIN) has released “Collaborative yet Independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences”, the third in its series of reports covering information practices in scholarly disciplines (earlier reports have covered life sciences and humanities).” PDFs of the executive summary and the full report can be download at:
Questia Launches Free iPad App to Help Write Research Papers
Questia has released the universal version of its free iPhone and iPod touch app “that now includes the iPad app making Questia’s … online library and research tools accessible on all iOS devices.”
Credo Reference Introduces Literati by Credo
Credo Reference … announced that “their new solution “Literati by Credo” is now available to libraries worldwide… The announcement of general availability marks the end of Literati’s beta period in which a select number of institutions utilized and tested the new solution. The beta group included institutions such as Columbia University, Marshall University, South University, Lancashire Libraries and the American University of Paris.”
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