“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.
Starting with the new year, we are participants in the PLOS Community Action Publishing program for two titles of their open access journals: PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine. This program is facilitated by CRKN, and eliminates Author Processing Fees (APCs) for University of Alberta authors publishing in these titles. Full […]
A reminder for the new year: HathiTrust is continually looking to improve the quality of its content and services. If errors in metadata or page images are observed, they should be reported using the “Feedback” link at the top of the HathiTrust site so that they can be followed up on […]
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 […]