HathiTrust creates new 12-member Board of Governors - April 4, 2012
HathiTrust has announced the composition of its new 12-member Board of Governors, which will lead the library collaborative into its next phase. HathiTrust is a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the… Read More
Baker & Taylor to provide ebooks via the Blio ereading application on Azpen tablets - April 4, 2012
Baker & Taylor, Inc., a distributor of digital and physical books, together with K- NFB Reading Technology, developer of the Blio ereading application, have announced that an ebook platform featuring the Blio ereader will soon be available on Azpen Innovation's Android-based tablet devices. Azpen is a… Read More
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
