Harvard Library Lab to fund first round of new tech projects - March 14, 2011
The Harvard Library Lab has announced its first ten projects, based on proposals submitted between August and December 2010. Among the proposals backed in the first round are Highbrow, a tool that would allow for easier viewing and analysis of annotations in scholarly texts; and Deposit@Harvard,… Read More
Republican US Senator calls for antitrust probe against Google - March 14, 2011
Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, recently added his support to a growing number of lawmakers seeking congressional hearings on Google Inc.'s business practices. The move comes just one day after the US Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights vowed to ensure fair… Read More
Forrester Research report examines possible challengers to iPad - March 14, 2011
Independent research company Forrester Research, US, recently published a new report saying that the iPad challengers that have been announced so far are solid products with fatally flawed product strategies. These include Android Honeycomb tablets from Motorola, Toshiba and others, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook… Read More
John Wiley & Sons and GeneBio SA announce global nonexclusive distribution deal - March 14, 2011
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, US, has announced a global nonexclusive distribution agreement with GeneBio SA, a Switzerland-based developer of SmileMS (Small Molecule Identification and Library Exploration Using LC-MS/MS). Under the agreement, Wiley will sell and distribute SmileMS alongside forthcoming LC-MS/MS libraries serving the bio-analytical laboratory… Read More
NFAIS conference slides made available online - March 14, 2011
Speaker slides from the recently concluded National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 2011 conference are now available online. NFAIS is a membership association for organisations that create, organise and facilitate access to authoritative information. The 2011 NFAIS Annual Conference sessions centered around taming the tide… Read More
SPARC Europe calls for nominations for the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - March 14, 2011
SPARC Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations and research institutions, will be accepting nominations for the sixth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications and Open Access. Nominations are open to individuals or teams, preferably within Europe, who have made… Read More
