ProQuest names Jonathan Collins as CFO - August 15, 2013
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has promoted Jonathan Collins to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In his new position, Collins, who has been interim CFO since April, will oversee all ProQuest’s financial functions, including financial operations, accounting, procurement, facilities, treasury, taxation… Read More
Registrations now open for HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp 2013 - August 15, 2013
HathiTrust has announced that registration is open until August 31 for the second annual HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) UnCamp, to be held September 8–9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. HathiTrust is a partnership of major academic and research libraries that are collaborating to… Read More
International Journal of Applied Science and Technology calls for papers - August 15, 2013
The International Journal of Applied Science and Technology (IJAST) is inviting papers for Vol. 3 No. 7 which is scheduled to be published on September 30, 2013. IJAST is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed international journal published by Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA. … Read More
Winners of 2013 Emerald/University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Case Writing competition announced - August 15, 2013
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the results of the first Emerald/University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) Case Writing Competition. Applicants were asked to submit a China-Focused teaching case based in business and management. The winning paper is entitled ‘A New… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ new industry forum whitepaper on unlocking the value of research data - August 14, 2013
The volume of scholarly and scientific research data available is projected to grow by a factor of 44 over the decade from 2010 to 2020, going from 0.8 zetabytes (ZB) to more than 35 ZB (1 ZB = 1 trillion gigabytes). In response to this unfathomable amount of information, the… Read More
Elsevier acquires Woodhead Publishing - August 14, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has acquired UK-based publisher, Woodhead Publishing Limited. It is expected that this acquisition will expand Elsevier's books portfolio in key subject areas including materials science, engineering and food science. The acquisition of Woodhead Publishing also includes Chandos Publishing, which is known for… Read More
