NISO announces new two-phase project to develop standards and recommended practices for altmetrics - June 24, 2013
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced a new two-phase project to study, propose, and develop community-based standards or recommended practices in the field of alternative metrics. Assessment of scholarship is a critical component of the research process, impacting everything from which projects get funded… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2010 papers featured in EBLIP - June 24, 2013
Fifteen articles about a range of assessment activities in academic libraries are featured in the latest issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP vol. 8, no. 2). An editorial by Martha Kyrillidou and Damon Jaggars summarises the themes of these papers selected from the 2010 Library Assessment Conference… Read More
Cengage Learning appoints Sandi Kirshner as Chief Marketing Officer - June 24, 2013
Cengage Learning, a leading educational content, software and services company, has announced the appointment of Sandi Kirshner as Chief Marketing Officer. She will be based in the company's Boston, MA office and will serve on the executive team reporting to Kevin Stone, Chief Sales and… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 24, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Disrupting the Faculty: The Changing Face of the College Textbook Business); Casey Bergman (Social media is shaping dialogue between scientists and journals); Heather Morrison (Outsell Open Access Report: missing the main point or are governments really committed to… Read More
Global Nature Publishing Index 2012 supplement released, United States continues to dominate world science - June 21, 2013
The United States remains the superpower of science, dominating a ranking of the world's top 200 institutions in 2012, published in the first Nature Publishing Index (NPI) Global supplement. The UK, Germany and Japan make up a solid top four countries in terms of high quality… Read More
Springer unveils French and Italian language-specific eBook collections - June 21, 2013
STM publisher Springer has announced that it is now offering two more language-specific eBook collections, in French and Italian. The French collection comprises about 330 titles, and the Italian collection offers over 400 titles, both ranging from 2005 through 2013. These collections aim to address… Read More
