Jun 29, 2012 | Academic Trends
The latest edition (2011) of the Journal Citation Reports has just been released. Academics can use this tool to rank several journals in different disciplines according to various fields such as Total Cites, Immediacy Index, Impact Factor and...
Jan 31, 2012 | Academic Trends
Update February 28, 2012:In a press release, Elsevier announces that it withdraws its support for the Research Work Act (a bill that was threatening open public access of federally funded research).In parallel it has announced to the Mathematics research community...
Nov 29, 2011 | Academic Trends
Cambridge Journals has announced an article rental offer providing “Low-cost access to peer-reviewed research papers from leading academic journals”Article Rental is open to anyone, anywhere in the world no subscription to any Cambridge title is...
Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
The HathiTrust is an initiative from a variety of academic institutions to ‘build a reliable and increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials’.On September 12, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des...
Sep 13, 2011 | Academic Trends
Hacking the Academy, a book crowdsourced in one weekIn May 2010 the two authors Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt asked online:Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms?...
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