EBSCO introduces YBP 'Core' ebook collections
EBSCO Information Services is introducing 10 new ebooks collections designed to give academic libraries a simple way to add important titles to their collections
EBSCO Information Services is introducing 10 new ebooks collections designed to give academic libraries a simple way to add important titles to their collections
SAGE and Corwin have announced that nearly 2,000 books are now available through iBooks for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac
EDP Sciences has signed an agreement with Portico to provide a permanent archive of the e-content for many of its key journals
Springer is to become the first publisher to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of its books via a new platform, Bookmetrix
Cambridge University Press is launching a new Open Access Monograph Publishing Service, offering authors a way to publish their books via open access in a fairly priced way
Springer SBM and Jisc have agreed an arrangement to take into account the needs of UK scientists to comply with multiple open access policies while accessing scientific articles published by Springer, while containing the combined costs of article processing charges and subscriptions
Cogent OA, an open access publisher backed by the Taylor & Francis Group, has launched Freedom APCs, an experimental new model designed to help match article publishing charges (APCs) to an author's ability to pay
Following a collaboration with Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, Springer has announce the release of SciDetect, a software program that automatically checks for fake scientific papers
The Wellcome Trust and Digital Science have introduced a 'contributor role taxonomy' to provide a high-level classification of the roles performed by individuals in the work leading to published academic research
Behind the headlines are exciting initiatives that have the potential to not just improve peer review, but optimise it for 21st century scholarship, says Eric Hall