World’s leading ICT standards organisations collaborate on emerging technologies - July 29, 2014
The 18th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), a senior-level gathering of the world's leading information and communication technologies (ICT) standards organisations, took place on July 22 – 23, 2014, hosted by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) in Sophia Antipolis, France. GSC enhances co-operation… Read More
SPIE Professional magazine’s photo contest celebrates light, light-based technologies - July 29, 2014
The SPIE Professional magazine is inviting entries in a photo contest celebrating the use of light and light-based technologies in everyday life. Cash prizes and placement on the magazine's cover will be awarded to the winning photos. Winning photos in a contest launched this week… Read More
TISP launches policy recommendations: the first operational guidelines to boost innovation in book publishing and ICT - July 29, 2014
The TISP network (Technology Innovation for Smart Publishing), the European project coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association which gathers 25 organisations from 12 European countries, has released a set of policy recommendations, giving the publishing and technology sectors a common base at European level to foster… Read More
CLOCKSS Archive certified as trusted digital repository - July 29, 2014
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has announced the completion of an eight-month audit of the CLOCKSS Archive and has certified the CLOCKSS Archive as a trustworthy digital repository. CLOCKSS claims to be the only organisation to earn a perfect score of… Read More
IHS and Oxford University Press in deal to bring authoritative engineering reference books to broad engineering community - July 28, 2014
IHS Inc., a global source of critical information and insight, and Oxford University Press (OUP) recently announced that a collection of authoritative engineering reference books from OUP have been integrated into the IHS cloud-based technical research solution. This solution, called IHS Knowledge… Read More
ProQuest Intota set to transform electronic resource management at Higher Colleges of Technology - July 28, 2014
ProQuest has announced that the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) have selected ProQuest Intota™ to help improve their existing workflow and ensure better control and visibility over the usage of their collections. Founded in 1988 with four colleges, the Higher Colleges of Technology have grown… Read More
