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Do you know what COUNTER release 4 means for usage reporting at your institution?
New usage reports for journals and ebooks In addition to the existing journal reports, you will also be able to run: Journal Report 1 GOA – successful Gold Open Access article requests by month and by journal Journal Report 2 – full-text access denials by month, journal and category Furthermore, if you’ve purchased IOP ebooks™, book […]
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Spotlight on ORCID
What is ORCID? ORCID is an acronym for Open Researcher and Contributor ID system. Begun as a non-profit community-based effort by members of the academic research community, the primary goal of the ORCID project is to clearly attribute scholarly output to individual researchers via a unique, opaque identifier. Many different types of scholarly works can […]
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SLA Travel Stipends Renamed in Memoriam
Earlier this year, IOP Publishing lost a cherished member of our family. In fond remembrance, and with the support of the PAM Community and the SLA-PAM Professional Development Committee, we are honored to announce that we have renamed the SLA Travel Stipends the “Louise Leckner Memorial Travel Stipends.” For the 2013 award year, IOP doubled […]
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Newton in Australia
By kind permission of Rare Books & Special Collections, University Library, University of Sydney Jacqui Grainger, Manager of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Sydney, speaks to Librarian Insider to share a fascinating insight into how the University of Sydney Library came to hold an annotated copy of the first edition of […]
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DC/SLA’s student scholarship
In our continuing support of libraries and librarians, IOP Publishing was delighted to once again sponsor the Catherine A Jones Memorial Scholarship award for the DC/SLA Chapter. This award is designed to assist students and future librarians in preparing for a master’s degree in library science (MLS), or a related degree, from an accredited program. […]
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Ten questions for authors to consider when publishing on an open access basis
Here are ten questions to think about when you are deciding to publish on an open access basis. What kind of open access do you and your co-authors want for your article? Generally speaking there are two main routes to making your article available on an open access basis. Gold – Where an article publication […]
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Mari Aaltonen, Senior Information Specialist, Library at Aalto University, Finland
What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your career so far? “Taking responsibility of a library’s e-resources with just 8 hours of instruction was quite a challenge and it did take a couple of years before I felt I really had it all under control.” What do you think will be your biggest […]
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Should you walk or run in the rain?
Thanks to the research of Franco Bocci, Professor of Engineering at the University of Brescia, we are now closer to solving this question, which has puzzled physicists and mathematicians (as well as the average pedestrian) for quite some time. His paper, which is not the first on this subject to be published in the European […]
