Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals recently commissioned a white paper exploring the OA movement and its impact and significance for the future of academic publishing. Arend Küster and Megan Toogood explain some of the thinking.
ACS Publications is offering a last chance to apply for a £1,000 travel scholarship to the UKSG Annual Conference in Glasgow.
Nominations are being sought for the UKSG Committee.
UKSG will be running the popular new workshop, Practical Project Management, in London on 21 May 2012.
JISC Collections has published a report, ‘UK Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources’, based on research carried out by Carol Tenopir.
An article in The Chronicle of Higher Eduction on 29 January 2012 looks at the rise of altmetrics, an alternative system of measuring scholarly influence.
The PLS is working with publishers and HE funding bodies to provide free electronic access to publications for the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Nielsen has released a white paper based on its research into the link between the quality of bibliographic metadata and book sales.
The PEER Economics Research final report is now available.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology has announced a partnership with Publishing Technology to redevelop and extend its Digital Library.
Ex Libris and HathiTrust have signed an agreement enabling library users to carry out searches of the HathiTrust collection via the Primo Central Index.
Blackwell’s booksellers have been awarded a contract to supply nineteen UK government department’s libraries and buying sections with books.
Royal Society Publishing has launched two new open access membership programmes.
SAGE’s Regional Office in Cairo is providing sales representation for all Adam Matthew Digital products in the Middle East and North Africa.
Ex Libris Group has announced the release of Aleph version 21, and also that NDL — the national library of Japan — has completed the transition to the Aleph integrated library system.
EBSCO A-to-Z and LinkSource are to become an integrated part of EBSCO Discovery Service.
The group who convened to advise Ex Libris on the Community Catalog of the Alma library management service has concluded the first phase of its work.
SAGE has commissioned a new research study to investigate library value.
Royal Society Publishing's free quarterly librarian e-newsletter is out now.
Five journals, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, are now online.
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of SPIE, IGI Global, Multi-Science Publishing, and the National Academies Press.
The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association and CUP have launched APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
Oxfam GB has adopted BioMed Central's Open Repository to create the Oxfam iLibrary.
The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery has announced the launch of Bone & Joint, an online resource.
Alma Swan and Lars Bjørnshauge have taken on new jobs at SPARC.