by Robin Padilla, Ph. D, Product Management | Research & Development | Science Publishing & Communication, Springer Nature (Reposted with permission from Robin Padilla's LinkedIn page) I’ve been touched by friends and colleagues sharing their personal...
Cengage Reaffirms Commitment to Student Affordability Following Termination of McGraw-Hill Merger Agreement "Cengage, an education and technology company, today announced that its merger agreement with McGraw-Hill has been terminated by mutual agreement due to a...
By Roberta Moscon, Office for Open Access, University of Trento <roberta.moscon@unitn.it> At many universities across Europe, a broad range of training events in Open Science skills and practices are now being offered on the initiative of entrepreneurial university...
by guest blogger Rossana Morriello, (research support librarian, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) A new urgent law approved by the Italian government on 10 April stated that some commercial activities could reopen starting from 14 April and among these activities are...
by guest blogger Bob Nardini, Vice President, Library Services ProQuest Books Those of us old enough to remember thought we’d seen how a city will beat an epidemic. That was Toronto, in 2003, where the American Library Association and Canadian Library...
by guest blogger Nicole Ameduri, Licensing Manager, Northeast US, Springer Nature As a true extrovert, the cancelling of all social events has not come easily for me. But we are healthy and that is the most important thing during these times. I miss my colleagues...
Katina Strauch, Editor of Against the Grain and the Founder of the Charleston Conference, and her team have just started the new online “Rumors Blog”. The new blog updates the eagerly anticipated “Rumors” column which appears in each issue of the print Against the...
by guest blogger Rossana Morriello, (research support librarian, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) In my previous post “Italian libraries and coronavirus,” I stated that the number of users of library services has increased in these days because of the pandemic that...
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
OhioLINK and De Gruyter reach agreement for eBooks from 6 university presses According to KnowledgeSpeak, "OhioLINK and De Gruyter have announced an agreement to provide OhioLINK’s 89 member libraries with newly published frontlist eBooks from University of...
American Society for Microbiology Is Now Using CCC's RightsLink for Scientific Communications According to Information Today, "CCC announced that “the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its...
NORTH OER Librarian, Bentley University, Waltham, MA Data Reference & Collections Librarian - New York University, Division of Libraries – New York, NY Assistant Director, Prospect Research & Management, Salem State University, Salem, MA Research and Teaching...
