McGraw-Hill Construction’s Dodge BuildShare platform named SIIA Content CODiE Award Finalist for Best Business Information Solution - December 24, 2012
McGraw-Hill Construction, a US-based provider of project and product information on the construction industry, has announced that Dodge BuildShare was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for Best Business Information Solution. Dodge BuildShare is a web-based diagnostic platform that identifies key… Read More
European Commission launches open data portal in public beta - December 24, 2012
The European Commission has launched its open data portal, announced last year December, in public beta. While the site is already on-line, the EC has requested to not widely circulate the URL yet. The beta launch will be more widely announced in January 2013. At… Read More
Free PLA webinar recording offers tools to build community e-book awareness - December 24, 2012
The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has released the free archive recording of the 90-minute webinar, 'E-Book Action: Inform and Inspire Your Community.' Projected as an informative webinar, it is said to offer inspiring case studies and practical tips… Read More
Amazon Web Services unveils High Storage instances for data intensive applications - December 24, 2012
US-based Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced High Storage instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family optimised for applications requiring fast access to large amounts of data. These new instances provide customers with 35 EC2 Compute Units (ECUs)… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 24, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (How Much of the Literature Goes Uncited?); Mike Taylor (What does it cost to publish a Gold Open Access article?); Cameron Neylon (Science publishing: Open access must enable open use); and Joseph Esposito (The Slow But Steady March… Read More
Dear Subscribers - December 24, 2012
This is to inform you that the number of articles carried in the newsletter will be fewer than usual, as business activity during this period (Dec 25 – Jan 1, 2012) is relatively low. Also, please note that there will be no newsletter dispatch on Dec 26th and Jan 2nd.… Read More
