Survey results of Transitions and Stress study now available - August 19, 2010
Information Industry professionals participated in a study on transitions and stress in the information industry in July 2009. This study was conducted by Colleen MacDonald Wright, a PhD student in Counseling and Counselor Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It was designed to measure the work-to-family and… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Kaplan International Colleges sign 5-year collaboration deal - August 19, 2010
Kaplan International Colleges and Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, have signed a five-year agreement to collaborate on developing learning and teaching materials for students and lecturers of English for Academic Purposes. With material developed by Kaplan, Cambridge University Press will… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available via SCOOPE STM Mobile - August 19, 2010
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Spain sues Google for illegal data collection - August 18, 2010
A judge in Spain has reportedly opened an investigation into whether internet search services provider Google illegally collected data from unsecured wireless networks while gathering photographs for Google's photo-mapping service Street View. According to a New York Times report, a representative from Google has been ordered… Read More
Drake University selects EBSCO Discovery Service - August 18, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that Drake University and Cowles Library have selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to enhance access to scholarly information. The customisable resource from EBSCO Publishing will be known as Cowles SuperSearch. Cowles SuperSearch will search across multiple databases,… Read More
BMJ Group launches open access journal – BMJ Open - August 18, 2010
Publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced the launch of an open access journal, BMJ Open. The journal is exclusively dedicated to publishing general medical research. The new title, scheduled for launch this autumn, will add to the publisher's growing stable of international titles. Authors, whose work… Read More
