“John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Hindawi Limited, an innovator in open access (OA) publishing and one of the world’s fastest growing scientific research publishers, for a total purchase price of $298 million.” – Jan.5/21 The full press release from Wiley is available here.
ProQuest has launched a new open access database titled Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality. It presents selected primary source documents from several time periods in American History, and contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on the following phases of Black Freedom: […]
The COPPUL Scholarly Communications Working Group (SCWG) Research Roundup is a new initiative to highlight publications, conference presentations, posters and working papers in the field of scholarly communications authored by Canadian librarians in 2019 and 2020. Submissions will be featured on the COPPUL SCWG blog (https://coppulscwg.ca/). To suggest items for […]
Announcement from Clarivate Analytics: Everything is relative, particularly when it comes to assessing your research. That’s why InCites Benchmarking and Analytics™ has long offered multiple classification schema, and now provides Citation Topics: a new way for you to view research based on the citation relationships between documents. We’ve sorted out […]
CSU distributed the fifth in our monthly series of collection newsletters on October 27th. In case you haven’t had a chance yet, you can also read it here. Thanks to all of our colleagues who helped with the cancellation decisions announced this month.