Jisc launches new network to inspire a future of innovation in research and education - November 27, 2013
Jisc is set to increase the country's global competitiveness by launching one of the world's most advanced computer networks - Janet6. This advanced network has been designed to address future demands for high capacity connectivity, enabling vast amounts of data to be exchanged in seconds.… Read More
Holiday Notice - November 27, 2013
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on November 28, 2013 and November 29, 2013 on account of Thanksgiving Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, December 2, 2013. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the… Read More
STM Association to host Innovations Seminar 2013 - November 26, 2013
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) will host the Innovations Seminar 2013 at the Congress Centre, Great Russell Street, London, on December 4. This annual London-event brings together the industry's most established thinkers and bright up-and-coming future stars to give attendees an… Read More
Authors Guild case against Google and its Library Project dismissed - November 26, 2013
On November 14, Judge Denny Chin of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the digitisation of millions of books from research library collections was a fair use and dismissed the Authors Guild case against Google and its Library Project, saying that the project "advances the progress… Read More
Elsevier unveils new OA journal – Urology Case Reports - November 26, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Urology Case Reports. The journal is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing case reports in all areas of adult and pediatric urology. Surveys of practicing urologists have… Read More
Metadata from HBO Knowledge Base to be indexed in Serials Solutions’ Summon Service - November 26, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with HBO Kennisbank to index the results of publicly funded research contained in the institutional repositories of Dutch universities in the Summon service. Metadata from the HBO Knowledge Base will be indexed allowing researchers to discover articles, research reports… Read More
