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Monday, 7 November 2011

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Editorial Team Announced for eLife, New Open Access Journal
ebrary Surveys Suggest Students’ Research Needs Unmet, Results to be Presented at Charleston
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Editorial Team Announced for eLife, New Open Access Journal

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:40 AM PST

Editorial Team Announced for eLife, New Open Access Journal

"The senior editorial team is today announced for eLife, the new top-tier, open-access research journal to be launched next year with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust....Editor-in-chief Randy Schekman and managing executive editor Mark Patterson will be joined by deputy editors, Fiona Watt, currently at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Detlef Weigel from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tubingen, Germany. They will be supported by around 15-20 senior editors – researchers who represent a broad range of biomedical and life science research fields....The announcement to support the new journal was made in June by the three scientific organizations. The initial goals of the journal are open-access publication of highly significant research; high-quality editorial decision-making by an independent team of active, practicing scientists; and a rapid and cutting-edge publishing process....For an initial period, to help establish the journal, no fees will be charged to authors. In time, it is anticipated that authors will be charged an article-processing fee to cover some of the on-going costs of publication. The first issue of eLife is expected late next year. The journal will utilise the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (CC BY 3.0) so that the content can be shared and used without restriction...."

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ebrary Surveys Suggest Students’ Research Needs Unmet, Results to be Presented at Charleston

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:24 AM PST

ebrary Surveys Suggest Students’ Research Needs Unmet, Results to be Presented at Charleston

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ebrary released the results of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey. Two findings: "E-book usage and awareness have not increased significantly in 2011 over 2008....The vast majority of students would choose electronic over print if it were available and if better tools along with fewer restrictions were offered...."