‘Journal of Agricultural Science’ launches new series on climate change - August 3, 2010
Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, has announced that The Journal of Agricultural Science has launched a special topic on 'Climate Change and Agriculture'. According to the journal, if agriculture is to continue the successes of the previous five decades in… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - August 3, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
UK’s open data observed to be difficult to comprehend - August 2, 2010
In an official podcast broadcast recently, Richard Sterling, the cabinet official behind the UK government's open data initiative, has expressed concerns that users are not drawing 'sensible conclusions' from public sector data sets. However, visualisation, he states, could provide the answer. Sterling admitted in the podcast that users are striving… Read More
IEEE announces new features for IEEE Xplore Digital Library - August 2, 2010
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US, a technical professional association for the advancement of technology, has launched several new enhancements to the IEEE Xplore digital library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). The latest updates to IEEE Xplore include support for Athens and Shibboleth… Read More
ETD Project to allow doctoral candidates to submit work via Western’s digital library repository - August 2, 2010
Doctoral candidates at the University of Western Ontario have a new option for submitting theses and dissertations for examination that will make their research available to scholars worldwide. Beginning August 1, 2010, the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Project allows Western's PhD candidates to submit their… Read More
SAGE launches exclusive study skills titles with Amazon - August 2, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that two new SAGE study skills titles will be available for purchase exclusively from Amazon's print-on-demand facility in the UK from August 6, 2010. The publications, Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students and University Life: The Essential Guide for Students,… Read More
