IEEE 802.11 amended to enable improvements in capacity - January 9, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE, US, has announced that the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board has approved the IEEE 802.11ad-2012 amendment to provide data rates up to 7 Gbps, more than 10 times the maximum speed previously enabled within the IEEE 802.11 standard. With the improvements… Read More
F1000Research comes out of beta - January 9, 2013
F1000Research, the first Open Science publisher, has launched following a successful beta testing phase. Launching on a new publishing platform, F1000Research is F1000's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists, offering researchers for the first time: immediate publication; transparent and fast peer review post-publication; and… Read More
Allen Press to hold annual event on emerging trends in scholarly publishing in April - January 9, 2013
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has announced that it will present its annual Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar on April 3, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. The 2013 seminar is titled "Redraw the Map: Setting the New Coordinates for… Read More
Gale adds new multimedia resource to its NGVL product line - January 9, 2013
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced the launch of National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World, a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) product line. This new resource… Read More
Pearson’s Online Learning Exchange named best of 2012 in ‘Tech & Learning’ Awards of Excellence - January 9, 2013
Pearson's Online Learning Exchange (OLE) – an innovative web- and mobile-ready learning platform – earned top honours in the 2012 'Tech & Learning' Awards of Excellence. Celebrating its 30th year, this recognition programme honours K-12 technology products that break new ground, as well as those that… Read More
Acumen Publishing joins Metapress hosting platform - January 9, 2013
MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced its recent association with Acumen Publishing. Metapress is ready to meet Acumen's speed-to-market needs by first hosting the publisher's content on the new Metapress Essential platform before launching the publisher's new online publishing platform, which is scheduled… Read More
