Dr. Howard E. Michel elected 2014 IEEE President-elect - December 3, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced that Dr. Howard E. Michel, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass-Dartmouth and engineering consultant, has been elected 2014 IEEE President-elect. Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors, Michel will begin serving his one-year term on January 1,… Read More
Techstreet Standards Publishers Innovation Forum addresses how innovation can drive success for standards organisations - December 3, 2013
Leaders from the standards publishing industry gathered on November 14 in Alexandria, Virginia, for the bi-annual Standards Publishers Innovation Forum (SPIF) presented by Techstreet, part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and a provider of industry codes and standards. The fall forum,… Read More
EBSCO Information Services named to 2013 EContent 100 list - December 3, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services has announced that it has been named to the 2013 EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry. Selection of the companies for the EContent 100 List falls to a team of judges including… Read More
American Meteorological Society becomes AIP’s latest member society - December 3, 2013
The American Institute of Physics has announced that the Boston-based American Meteorological Society (AMS) has become the institute's newest member society. AMS will now receive all the benefits conferred by full membership, including free subscriptions to AIP's flagship magazine, Physics Today, for all AMS members… Read More
Elsevier in deal with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University to expand access to scientific publications - December 2, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has reached an agreement with Russia's Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) to grant access to ScienceDirect's Journal Backfile Collection and e-Book Collection as well as Reaxys® to its researchers. In addition, Elsevier will host two of FEFU's open access journals on ScienceDirect.… Read More
Saudi Digital Library secures access to leading science journals on nature.com - December 2, 2013
The Saudi Digital Library (SDL), part of The Saudi Ministry of Higher Education, has signed a major agreement with scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Under the deal, thirty Saudi Arabian universities, members of the Saudi Digital Library Consortium, will gain access to all journals… Read More