New Divinity journal launched
This week we launched a new journal on our Journal Hosting Service – Bible and the Contemporary World. The new journal has been developed by Daniel Rentfro Jr., honorary research assistant at St Mary’s college. Daniel…
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Open Book Publishers 150 list – Annunciations
Last week we blogged Open Book Publishers 150th title. Also included in the list of 150 is George Corbett‘s recently published edited volume Annunciations: sacred music for the twenty-first century [1]. Dedicated To…
Open Book Publishers celebrates title 150
Open Book Publishers recently announced its 150th title – by Kathyrn Rudy in the School of Art History. Back in 2016 we blogged Kathryn’s previous book, also published by OBP. Source: Rudy, 2019, p.82 Image, Knife,…
Responsible use of research metrics
The University of St Andrews is currently running a consultation with Schools on a set of principles for the responsible use of research metrics, including whether the University should sign up to the San Francisco…
Springer OA agreement extended to 2021
We are delighted to announce that the Springer Compact open access deal will continue until 2021. Under the scheme corresponding authors at participating institutions publishing in a journal with the ‘Open Choice’…
InstantILL now installed at IUPUI
InstantILL, from Open Access Button, is a free tool to make inter library loans quicker cheaper and more straightforward. It was originally announced in March, and since then over 250 libraries have joined the waiting…
Health Information Week: Innovations for preventing illness
In this final post in our series for Health Information Week, we are highlighting a report [1] that looks into the effects of using text message interventions to reduce binge drinking. The report is co-authored by…
Long term conditions; and social prescribing
For our penultimate post in Health Information Week we’ve discovered an older fully Open Access article from 2014 by Frank Sullivan commemorating a pioneer of the Scottish Health Informatics Programme, Dr John Bryden…
Health Information Week: Health and digital literacy
Continuing this week’s series of posts highlighting Open Access research we’ve discovered some reported novel findings [1]. embarassingproblems.com helps users resolve ailments most of us would rather not talk about,…
Health Information Week: Healthy Lifestyles
It’s Health Information Week, a multi-sector national campaign to raise awareness of the importance of high-quality health information to support healthy living and managing illness. Open Access advocates have long…