Harper College partners with Blackboard to provide mobile access to campus services - April 4, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc, US, has announced a partnership with Harper College to provide information and mobile access to campus services with the ultimate goal of increasing graduation rates. Harper has adopted Blackboard Mobile Central as part of its long-term strategy to… Read More
Gannett Co. selects TEMIS to provide semantic indexing and content enrichment solution - April 4, 2012
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a license and services agreement for its flagship software solution, Luxid, with Gannett Co., Inc., an international media and marketing solutions company. Gannett has chosen to deploy TEMIS' Luxid semantic tagging… Read More
Elsevier to integrate geological maps from the Society for Sedimentary Geology into Geofacets - April 3, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will integrate about 18,000 geological maps from the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) into its web-based research tool Geofacets. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, SEPM is home to some of the most esteemed journals and must-have resources for geological… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education working with US govt. initiative to advance digital learning in schools - April 3, 2012
Officials from the US Department of Education (DoE) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently brought together leaders from the digital education industry to formulate a unified strategy for moving the nation’s K-12 classrooms into the digital age. Among the education and technology industry leaders… Read More
OCLC offers recording of Search Engine Optimization for Institutional Repositories webinar - April 3, 2012
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has announced that the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for institutional repositories webinar recording is now available on the OCLC Research website. This webinar provided SEO techniques designed to improve the indexing ratios of institutional repositories in Google Scholar. More… Read More
Ingram’s Vital Source expands e-textbook reach with Android app - April 3, 2012
Ingram Content Group’s e-textbook platform Vital Source has announced the expansion of its mobile footprint with the addition of an e-textbook app for Android. VitalSource Bookshelf claims to be the only e-textbook platform available in online and offline environments with dedicated download apps for a… Read More
