Thieme Teaching Assistant now features full-colour images from Thieme’s physiology and pharmacology titles - December 15, 2011
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that 'Thieme Teaching Assistant,' a web-based platform for teachers and students, launched in 2008, now contains full-colour images from three of Thieme's bestselling physiology and pharmacology titles. 'Thieme Teaching Assistant Physiology' includes 200 full-colour images from Physiology-An… Read More
ebrary provides free access to its e-book download survey - December 15, 2011
E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, a ProQuest business, has announced that the results of its survey of more than 1,000 librarians regarding e-book mobile and offline access is now publicly available online. Interested parties may register to receive the full results along with a… Read More
EBSCO offers scholarships for librarians to attend 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting - December 15, 2011
Information services provider EBSCO, US, in co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA) has awarded five librarians $1,500 scholarships to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, from January 20–24, 2012. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write… Read More
NISO-Open Archives Initiative project receives Sloan grant - December 15, 2011
The US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant is for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronisation of web resources. Increasingly,… Read More
British Library welcomes IPO consultation on the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property - December 15, 2011
The British Library, the national library of the UK, has welcomed the consultation (professional section) issued by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which calls for evidence to inform the impact assessment of the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property. The British Library's submission to the Hargreaves… Read More
Maney Publishing set to publish the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health - December 15, 2011
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has acquired the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health from Hamilton Hardy Publishing. Maney will begin publishing this new title from 2012. The journal will continue with existing editor David S Egilman of Brown University, USA. The International Journal… Read More
