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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Open access has revolutionized the way that scholarship is disseminated, transforming communication and making scholarly works widely available in a digital format, online and free of charge, for the benefit of both authors and readers. However, it presents challenges for libraries in that it adds another kind of content, with different permissions, to the vast amount of complex digital data that libraries must somehow manage. Read our blog to learn more.

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A Conversation With BioMed Central’s Cockerill on Open Access Publishing
by Abby Clobridge
BioMed Central (BMC), one of the leading open access (OA) and STM publishers, announced in mid-September that Matthew Cockerill, managing director, would be leaving the company at the end of the year. ... Last month, I had a chance to sit down with Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing.

Weekly News Digests
Springer Partners With Qatar National Library
Springer Science+Business Media signed an agreement with the Qatar National Library (QNL) granting Qatar residents access to ebooks and ejournals on SpringerLink, Springer's database of electronic scientific content.
ProQuest and OCLC Automate WorldCat Updates
OCLC and ProQuest are collaborating on an automation process for updating holdings from ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) and offering current links in the WorldCat database and in library catalogs.
More OA Journals Arrive From Frontiers
Frontiers, part of Nature Publishing Group, introduced Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Environmental Science as the newest additions to its open access (OA) journal collection. The new journals are part of the Frontiers in … journal series.

NewsLink Spotlight
Anti-Malware Options in 2013
by Donovan Griffin
Viruses happen. So does being infected with spyware, scareware, rootkits, ransomware, keyloggers, and unintentionally being made part of a botnet. ... Luckily, there are solutions to almost any malware-related problem, provided you know what you're facing and what to download. In most cases, all it takes is a proper estimation of your situation and an internet connection (or, in the worst of scenarios, a flash drive and the use of another computer). With that in mind, here are the top anti-virus (AV) performers, sorted by their strengths and who they're useful for.

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