Following the release of the Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) for 2013, Springer announced that 26 of its journals have received a first-time impact factor (IF). That brings the total number of Springer journals listed in the report – including many...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced a continued increase in the proportion of its journal titles indexed in the 2014 release of Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). A total of 1,202 Wiley titles (approximately 70%) were indexed, up from 1,193 in...

Public Libraries across the UK and Ireland are being given the opportunity to help future-proof their services thanks to a £200,000 funding boost from the Carnegie UK Trust. The three year funding programme, ‘Carnegie Library Lab’ will create partnerships with up to...

ARL, along with almost 60 other organizations, joined in a letter opposing model licenses recently released by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM). The letter’s signatories are calling for STM to recommend to its...

O'Reilly Media, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Pearson's 50% interest in Safari Books Online, LLC. Safari is now a wholly owned subsidiary of O'Reilly. Developed by O'Reilly and launched as a joint venture with Pearson in 2001, Safari will continue to...

10 million academic articles now included in the initiative.  Since launching earlier this year, the Access to Research initiative has grown quickly to include the majority of local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales. This means that researchers, students...