Cengage Learning appoints Michael Hansen as new CEO - August 13, 2012
Cengage Learning, a US-based provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, has announced the appointment of Michael Hansen to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Hansen will succeed Ron Dunn, who has served as CEO since July 2007. Effective upon the commencement of… Read More
IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and Other Information Workers approved - August 13, 2012
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Code of Ethics for Librarians and Other Information Workers has been approved and endorsed this month. During 2011 and 2012 a working group from the Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)… Read More
Duke University Press to preserve e-journals in CLOCKSS Archive - August 13, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced a partnership with the Duke University Press to preserve their e-journals in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Duke University Press has committed… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 13, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (The Secret Life of Retracted Articles); Joe Wikert (Why Are Apps Only on Tablets?); Martin Eve (Blog inequality in scholarly research will not end until digital preservation techniques improve); Kent Anderson (Disruption — Are We Seeing a New… Read More
Biotechnology and Ecology sections added to ScienceIndex under Biological Sciences - August 13, 2012
ScienceIndex.com, a biotechnology and ecology sciences social network, has now included the two new categories of Biotechnology and Ecology under the field of Biological Sciences. While the Biotechnology section covers the utilisation of bacteria, yeasts and other biological substances for industrial and manufacturing processes, the Ecology… Read More
Google to pay $22.5 million to settle FTC charges on misrepresentation to Safari users - August 10, 2012
Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million civil penalty to settle US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges. According to the charges, Google misrepresented to users of Apple Inc.'s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking "cookies"… Read More
