Nichols School library opts for EBSCO Discovery Service - April 1, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that Nichols School, a Buffalo, New York school for grades 5-12, has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) for ease of searching and breadth of information. EDS seeks to provide users with access to a school's entire… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health announces enhancements to Sentri7 - April 1, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced several new enhancements to Sentri7, a web-based, enterprise-wide electronic surveillance application that helps hospital staff identify at-risk patients. The Sentri7 Pharmacy Module now prioritises patients by need for intervention when pharmacists are rounding. Sentri7 also allows… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education launches new version of LearnSmart - April 1, 2013
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has launched a new version of the company's market-leading adaptive learning program, McGraw-Hill LearnSmart. With this expansion, McGraw-Hill Education aims to help improve education and results for a market of more than 15 million students… Read More
Oxford University Press launches new journal – Journal of Complex Networks - April 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the launch of a new journal, the Journal of Complex Networks. Professor Ernesto Estrada of the University of Strathclyde will serve as the editor-in-chief of the journal. The study of complex networks has recently emerged as… Read More
Credo partners with ReadSpeaker to add text-to-speech technology into Literati solutions - April 1, 2013
Credo, a provider of information and digital literacy solutions for libraries, has announced that it is integrating technology from ReadSpeaker, a provider of online text to speech, into its Literati solutions. ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology is one of many recent additions to the innovative learning technologies that… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 1, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Another Door Opens (Quietly) for MOOCs); Andrew Farke (Who’s to blame (or credit) for fast peer review?); Martin Eve (Open access and the humanities: reimagining our future); Kent Anderson (“By Scientists, For Scientists” — Deconstructing a Misguided, Misleading,… Read More
