McGraw-Hill’s digital learning platforms now part of JISC Collections’ offerings to members - August 8, 2012
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections to offer its acclaimed suite of digital learning platforms to its members. McGraw-Hill Professional is a global provider of education and reference materials, information, and books for the Science,… Read More
NISO and the DAISY Consortium publish new American National Standard Authoring and Interchange Framework - August 8, 2012
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the DAISY Consortium announce the publication of the new American National Standard Authoring and Interchange Framework (ANSI/NISO Z39.98-2012). The standard defines how to represent digital information using XML to produce documents suitable for transformation into different universally accessible formats.… Read More
Taylor & Francis bags top rank in JCR Social Science category - August 8, 2012
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group, UK, has reportedly been named the largest global publisher in the Social Science Edition of the recently-released 2011 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Taylor & Francis publishes the top ranked title in 12 subject areas with a further 65 titles… Read More
ARL releases final version of RLI 279 - August 8, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the final version of Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 279, which is devoted to legal concerns and evolving professional practices around digitising special collections and archival materials. A pre-publication version of this issue was released in June. The… Read More
NLM to be part of ‘Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities’ symposium - August 8, 2012
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced its first initiative as part of its recently-established partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which lays groundwork for the two institutions to cooperate on initiatives of common interest. NLM, a component of the National Institutes… Read More
OCLC and ALISE invite proposals for 2013 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program - August 8, 2012
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) are inviting research proposals for the 2013 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP). Awards of up to $15,000 are… Read More
