Journal Pricing is an “Untenable Situation Facing the Harvard Library”
From a Letter by the Harvard Faculty Advisory Council to All Harvard Faculty Members (via Harvard U. Library Transition Web Site) We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard...
View ArticleNew: OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot Final Report
Direct to Full Text (via California Digital Library) From the Executive Summary: Beginning in late 2010, an ad hoc Coordinating Committee consisting of several individuals who were active in the shared...
View ArticleMedical Journals: JAMA Unveils Network Linking 10 AMA Journals
From American Medical News: The Journal of the American Medical Association and its specialty Archives journals are launching a new Web platform that makes it easier and faster for readers to navigate...
View ArticleProQuest and Elsevier Expand Agreement for Medical Publications
From ProQuest: ProQuest and Elsevier Health are expanding their relationship for licensing of the Lancet family of medical journals to include 36 additional acclaimed health science titles from...
View ArticleFreebie Alert! Full Text Access to New Political Science Journals From De...
From a De Gruyter eMail Alert: De Gruyter just added 19 political science journals to its extensive and high quality journal collection, and to celebrate the good news, we are pleased to offer you a...
View ArticleStandards: NISO Seeks Public Comment on Draft of Recommended Practice, PIE-J:...
From a Summary by the National Library of Medicine: The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, has a deep interest in...
View ArticleOpen Access: Major Milestone for SCOAP3: Invitation to Tender sent to...
From the SCOAP3 Web Site: SCOAP3 is pleased to announce that it has issued its Invitation to Tender to the leading publishers of high-quality peer-reviewed journals carrying content in the field of...
View ArticleScottish Library Consortium (SHEDL) Signs Comprehensive Licensing Agreement...
From Today’s Announcement: Springer and the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library Consortium (SHEDL) recently signed a ground-breaking agreement for access to electronic journal subscriptions and...
View ArticleJSTOR Adds New Titles to Collections, Several Missing Issues Also Added
Here’s a direct link to a complete list of new/titles. Title lists can also be download (by collection) using the links found on this page. The updated is dated June 15, 2012. See Also: Project MUSE:...
View ArticleDigital Preservation: CLOCKSS and Portico Welcome New Publishers, Publications
Here’s a look at several digital preservation announcements made during the past couple of days. New Publishers/Publications: CLOCKSS PeerJ Preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive Future Science Group...
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