Registrations now open for ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses 2013 - July 15, 2013
Registration is now open for the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at four ARL member libraries through 2013. Dates are being finalised for course offerings at seven additional ARL libraries in 2014. ARL and… Read More
Emerald announces winners of 17th Annual Citation of Excellence Awards - July 15, 2013
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the winners of its 2013 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their seventeenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. These include Harvard… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 15, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Michael Clarke (Why the Apple Ebook Ruling is a Loss for Publishers, Authors, and Readers); Joe Wikert (Why are you surprised by Amazon's pricing fluctuations?); Samuel Moore (Academics: Ask not what Open Access can do for you, but what it… Read More
Ukrainian research institutions to benefit from broader access to Elsevier content and solutions - July 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its cooperation with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science in order to provide access to Elsevier's scientific databases for sixty Ukrainian research institutions. A Declaration of Intent for Cooperation has been signed by the Ministry of Education and Science… Read More
Springer publishes 1,000th volume of Methods in Molecular Biology - July 12, 2013
STM publisher Springer has published Vascular Proteomics, the 1,000th volume of Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB), both part of the SpringerProtocols database. Making this accomplishment even more noteworthy is the fact that the series has had the same editorial direction for its entire 30 years through… Read More
Serials Solutions expands Dutch audio-visual content in the Summon service - July 12, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has acted on requests to expand discovery of audio-visual content by working with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision ('Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid') to include the database Academia. One of the largest audio-visual archives in Europe, the institute… Read More
