A round-up of all the news you may have missed including: Elsevier launches Biology Research Network; T&F partner with The Conversation Africa; new case study collection from Emerald; JoVE adds physics; Webcomics and Webcultures archives from the Library of Congress; UK's national sculpture collection to be catalogued - and more.
Posted 25 June 2017
United Nations Digital Library; Europeana Photography; PHAROS Art Research Consortium; Elsevier appoints VP for Global Library Relations; Inspec adds Wiley Journals.
Posted 26 May 2017
Reduced or no Article Processing Charges for authors from EIFL network.
Posted 19 May 2017
Nearly half a million images made available.
Posted 21 April 2017
New open access portal from the Gates Foundation; Altmetric annual grant applications open; Kudos and PubFactory partner; Karger and UNSILO enrich content
Posted 27 March 2017
The rapid pace of change in the Open Data and Open Science landscape across Europe can make it difficult to stay informed.
Posted 22 March 2017
The Academic Publishing Europe conference considered the ethics of publishing, covering everything from Peer Review to Piracy. Marydee Ojala reports.
Posted 09 March 2017
Microsoft calls for Digital Geneva Convention; AAAS and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partner to advance open access publishing; Springer Healthcare launches new medical education website.
Posted 17 February 2017
A round-up of interesting initiatives and announcements you may have missed including the launch of a programme for displaced researchers and a new study on the usage of e-books.
Posted 13 February 2017
Wiley aims to support authors throughout life of their research papers.
Posted 08 February 2017
OA content from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru are now discoverable via OpenAIRE.
Posted 20 January 2017
Survey highlights awareness of open data and researchers' attitudes to making their data open
Posted 05 November 2016
A taskforce is exploring what a global library for a global university should look like.
Posted 04 November 2016
Europeana has found use of content themes has trebled engagement with collections.
Posted 24 October 2016
Initiative to improve impact and visibility of research outputs.
Posted 07 October 2016
New report discusses the future of OA mega-journals, credibility and long term cost implications.
Posted 07 October 2016
Capgemini has published a report exploring the current state of open data across the EU28+ countries - France and Spain lead the way.
Posted 06 October 2016
SAGE Publishing has announced the acquisition of the OA journal portfolio of Libertas Academica.
Posted 21 September 2016
Project Bloks will teach children how to code.
Posted 28 June 2016
Collaborative open source project.
Posted 28 June 2016
Service wants to advance public access.
Posted 28 June 2016
The trial has already resulted in 1.3 million additional article accesses.
Posted 30 March 2016
Non-compliance with funders' requirements may see a reduction in support for hybrid journals.
Posted 30 March 2016
Collaboration to consider scholarly research in the digital, networked age.
Posted 30 March 2016
Free access to a range of resources to help fight Zika virus.
Posted 11 March 2016