Keith Fox named President of McGraw-Hill Construction - March 30, 2010
Information services provider McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced the appointment of Keith Fox as president of McGraw-Hill Construction, a provider of design and construction information and intelligence in North America. Keith most recently was president of BusinessWeek. In his new position, Keith… Read More
Dear Subscriber - March 30, 2010
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One-third of Americans use public library for Net access, says study - March 29, 2010
Nearly one-third of Americans aged 14 and above – roughly 77 million people – used a public library computer or wireless network to access the Internet in the past year, according to a recently released national report. The report, Opportunity for All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access… Read More
Content on the Nature News site now freely available - March 29, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced free access to all content hosted on the Nature News site (www.nature.com/news). This includes online news articles, and news and news features articles published in Nature. Previously, this content was free for… Read More
NEOS Library Consortium members to implement WorldCat Local service - March 29, 2010
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that the University of Alberta, Red Deer College, Lakeland College and Concordia University College of Alberta are the first among NEOS member libraries to implement WorldCat Local. WorldCat Local is the service that delivers… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell partners with Semantico to launch Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology online - March 29, 2010
STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has launched the eighth edition of Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology online in partnership with online publishing services provider Semantico Limited. The 8th Edition marks the debut of the online edition of Rook's Textbook of Dermatology, allowing users the fastest possible… Read More
