New Graduate Education Program integrates, expands and modernises legacy LIS support from across the ProQuest enterprise - August 8, 2012
ProQuest, an information company central to global research, has announced that it will combine the best of its popular development programmes for library schools to create a single, wide-ranging source that connects students and faculty with free resources designed to advance education and careers. The new… Read More
Poudre Valley Hospital selects ProVation Medical Software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding - August 8, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Poudre Valley Hospital has selected its ProVation Medical Software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding in its GI labs. ProVation Medical provides procedure documentation and clinical decision support solutions for hospitals and Ambulatory… Read More
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
