Some significant acquisitions in the publishing industry have made the news this week. Clarivate, formerly a division of Thomson Reuters with Web of Science in its vast portfolio, has purchased ProQuest, for a reported $5.3 billion USD. In other news, Wiley has acquired the open access provider Knowledge Unlatched.
We now have access to The Artforum Archive: “The backfile of Artforum, the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020″ Please note that this is not a new purchase, but rather an addition related to a multi-year agreement with ProQuest that provides access […]
As you know, we prefer to purchase ebooks in perpetuity, and do so whenever possible. For some ebook resources, however, such as O’Reilly Books (formerly known as Safari), subscribing is the only option. As such, publishers can remove their books from this resource. This is a rare event, but it […]
We now have trial access to MLA Handbook Plus, the online version of the MLA Handbook. We know there’s interest in this resource, but it’s brand new — so we first need to check that it lives up to our hopes, and is usable and useful. (And please note, we also […]
From Nature, Oct.26/21: “Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online. Catalogue of billions of phrases from 107 million papers could ease computerized searching of the literature”.