ProQuest to present the Roger K. Summit Scholarship; UC Davis and CDL Awarded $800,000 Grant From Mellon Foundation to Lead Project to Build Open Access Financial Model; National Science Foundation Expands Public Access to Research Springer and Université Joseph Fourier release SciDetect to discover fake scientific papers; EBSCO Launches Orbit, an Online Catalog of EBSCO Discovery Service Apps; AMI Software and Elsevier in deal to integrate Scopus Data into AMI Enterprise Intelligence; Cambridge University Press adopts OrgRef for improved data quality; UNESCO Introduces Open Data Portal; and Gale Positions Library Resources at the Center of Learning with MindTap Integration.
ProQuest to present the Roger K. Summit Scholarship
“ProQuest is proud to present the Roger K. Summit Scholarship; open to all LIS students worldwide. The award is the equivalent of US $5,000 and is presented at the Special Libraries Association 2015 Annual Conference to be held June 14-16 in Boston, Massachusetts or at a regional location in proximity to the winner…”
UC Davis and CDL Awarded $800,000 Grant From Mellon Foundation to Lead Project to Build Open Access Financial Model
InfoDOCKET reports that The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library (CDL) will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of Open Access to scholarship. Pay It Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions is a year-long effort to study the implications of new funding models for scholarly communications, particularly the use of article processing charges, and determine their sustainability for research universities in the U.S. and Canada…”
National Science Foundation Expands Public Access to Research
Resource Shelf reports that “the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced its continued commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research through the publication of its public access plan, Today’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries. NSF’s public access is intended to accelerate the dissemination of fundamental research results that will advance the frontiers of knowledge and help ensure the nation’s future prosperity…”
Springer and Université Joseph Fourier release SciDetect to discover fake scientific papers
According to Library Technology Guides “after intensive collaboration with Dr. Cyril Labbé from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, Springer announces the release of SciDetect, a new software program that automatically checks for fake scientific papers. The open source software discovers text that has been generated with the SCIgen computer program and other fake-paper generators like Mathgen and Physgen… Springer and the University are releasing the software under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.0 (GPLv3) so others in the scientific and publishing communities can benefit…”
EBSCO Launches Orbit, an Online Catalog of EBSCO Discovery Service Apps
Library Technology Guides also reports that “EBSCO Orbit, an online catalog of apps that enhance the EBSCO discovery experience for library users, is now available from EBSCO Information Services. The self-service environment allows libraries to browse and request apps, and offers the opportunity to have EBSCO manage these apps. Orbit includes a collection of nearly 100 apps which will continue to expand. These apps augment the search experience, highlight content, enhance library interaction and integrate with a wide variety of third-party environments…”
AMI Software and Elsevier in deal to integrate Scopus Data into AMI Enterprise Intelligence
According to KnowledgeSpeak “Elsevier and market intelligence solutions provider AMI Software (AMI) have announced an agreement to provide AMI Software’s core product AMI Enterprise Intelligence (AMI EI) with access to data from Scopus. The AMI-Elsevier agreement allows AMI customers, with a subscription to Scopus, to import bibliographic records from Scopus, via an automated process, into AMI EI…
Cambridge University Press adopts OrgRef for improved data quality
KnowledgeSpeak also reports that “Cambridge University Press (CUP) has adopted the OrgRef dataset to help clean and de-duplicate its customer data. OrgRef is a free and open dataset which has been created by DataSalon for the benefit of the scholarly publishing community. OrgRef shares structured information about organisations from Wikipedia and other open resources, and aims to cover the most important academic and research organisations worldwide…”
Publishers File Motion to Reopen Record in GSU Electronic Reserves Case; GSU Opposes
According to InfoDOCKET “following the Eleventh Circuit’s reversal and remand of the Georgia State University (GSU) e-reserves case in which the court largely rejected many arguments advanced by the publisher plaintiffs, the publishers have now filed a motion to reopen the record.
Essentially the publishers are asking for evidence of GSU’s current conduct in an effort to seek a new trial with a new set of allegations. GSU has opposed this motion, asserting that reopening the record would be highly burdensome, and noting that in filing this motion the publishers are trying to use the past seven years of litigation as a “dry run” for a “second go” at the case…”
UNESCO Introduces Open Data Portal
InfoDOCKET reports on the introduction of the new portal Opendata.UNESCO.org which is “intended to present comprehensive, quality and timely information about UNESCO’s projects, enabling users to find information by country/region, funding source, and sector and providing comprehensive project data, including budget, expenditure, completion status, implementing organization, project documents, and more. It publishes program and financial information that are in line with UN system-experience of the IATI (International Aid Transparency Initiative) standards and other relevant transparency initiatives…”
Gale Positions Library Resources at the Center of Learning with MindTap Integration
According to PRNewswire “Gale is integrating Gale Artemis: Primary Sources into Cengage Learning’s MindTap e-learning platform. The move brings library content directly into a student’s learning path, facilitates collaboration between librarians and faculty, drives usage of library collections and positions the library closer to the engagement taking place in the classroom…”