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Brill content available to developing-world researchers via INASP Brill and INASP have signed an agreement to make Brill journal content directly available through INASP as part of Brill’s Developing Countries Program. Brill content is already included through EBSCO, but now the content will also be offered directly through INASP.


SHARE releases Notification System Project Plan The SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) – a joint initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land- grant Universities (APLU) – has released the SHARE Notification System Project Plan.


The SHARE Notification System Project Plan describes the process to develop a higher education- based initiative to strengthen efforts to identify, discover, and track research outputs. The long-term vision of the project includes the notification system; a distributed registry layer that can accommodate publications and research data; a discovery layer to help interested parties find research outputs across repositories; and a content aggregation layer to facilitate data and text mining of large corpora of content.


HighWire offers


Altmetric integration to publishers HighWire Press and Altmetric have struck a deal to offer altmetrics integration to publications hosted on the HighWire Open Platform. The agreement will enable publications on HighWire to display Altmetric data beside their research articles online.


Kudos announces pilot results and new clients


Articles shared by authors using the pilot-phase Kudos tool saw an average of 19 per cent higher daily downloads than those that didn’t, says the company. During its September to December 2013 pilot period, over 5,500 authors registered to


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use Kudos and hundreds of lay summaries, impact statements, short titles and multimedia items were added to the platform. Kudos has also announced new clients, which include the American Society for Microbiology, Emerald Group


Publishing, Health Affairs, IOP Publishing, Maney Publishing, OECD, Royal Society Publishing, Thieme Publishers and Wiley. The platform has been undergoing substantial re- development and is scheduled to re-launch in April 2014.


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Study reveals e-book use trends


The social sciences far outperform humanities and STM in the percentage of e-book titles used and the average amount of use per book. However, users working with e-books on STM subjects tend to be more active with their books in each session, carrying out tasks such as downloading or printing content. These are among the findings of ongoing research from Michael Levine-Clark, associate dean for scholarly communication and collections services at the University of Denver Libraries, USA, who presented at this year’s American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia. Levine-Clark’s research also revealed the importance of quality content to users and that they prefer titles from university presses to those from other publishers. ‘University press


e-books are used at a higher rate by all measures,’ said Levine- Clark. ‘Users of e-books appear to be making some judgment about quality.’


For the research, a dataset from ebrary and EBL was anonymised and provided to Levine-Clark in aggregate.


Collected over the course of three to four years, the data encompassed more than 7,000 libraries and included more than half a million titles. Within the data, Levine-Clark explored sessions and user activities, such as views, printing, copying and full-title downloads.


Project investigates open-access publishing of monographs


The Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) has launched a project to investigate the issues regarding open-access publishing of monographs and other long- form scholarly works.


The project, which is expected to run until mid- 2014, is examining the current situation of the monograph, whether it is in crisis, and what are the scholarly and cultural forces that make


it so important. It includes an expert reference group to establish what evidence is needed in this area, and provide advice on an appropriate programme of work to gather this evidence.


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