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Jun 15

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University of Prince Edward Island Unplugs Web of Science

Official news here that the University of Prince Edward Island is giving up on licensing Web of Science in the face of a 120% subscription increase. Better yet, they are taking the forward-looking step of building a consortium to develop a free and open alternative to it. Congratulations and thank you UPEI.

Web of Science is a product sold by Thompson Reuters. Part of its bundle of services is the proprietary system of citation indexes and impact factor rankings that has gummed up much of the legacy journal system.

Jun 9

Cutting Ties with Nature Publishing Group

UCLA leadership explains why faculty need to cut ties with Nature Publishing Group. See the document available via this post on the UCLA Biomedical Library weblog. A 400% increase in subscription costs! Madness.

Nov 30

Further Evidence of the Instability of the Not-for-Profit/For-Profit Distinction in Scholarly Publishing

Berg Publishers (acquired last year by Bloomsbury) has just announced an agreement through which its Berg Fashion Library (an online resource for dress and fashion studies) will be distributed globally by Oxford University Press. See also Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, now an Rowman and Littlefield partnership.

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