Brill set to launch Chinese version of corporate website at Beijing Book Fair - August 25, 2014
Scholarly publisher Brill is set to launch a Chinese version of their corporate website – brill.com/cn – at the Beijing Book Fair. Now available in Simplified Chinese, the website allows Brill to better serve the Chinese-speaking research and academic library communities. Users can choose between… Read More
Kareo to discuss emerging technology at UBM Medica’s Practice Rx conference in Philadelphia - August 25, 2014
Kareo Inc., a provider of cloud-based medical office software and services for small medical practices, will be participating in UBM Medica's Practice Rx conference, taking place September 19-20, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In a session titled, ‘The Essential Role for Technology… Read More
HARRASSOWITZ announces 2014 Charleston Conference Scholarship winner - August 25, 2014
HARRASSOWITZ, a global full-service subscription agent and bookseller, has awarded the 2014 Charleston Conference Scholarship to Charlotte Roh, Scholarly Communication Resident Librarian at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Ms. Roh was awarded the $1,000 scholarship to attend the conference, which takes place November 5 -… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 25, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Stevan Harnad (Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?); Angela Cochran (The Mystery of a “Partial” Impact Factor); Joe Wikert (A business model I’m sorry we’ll never see); Rick Anderson (Asserting Rights We Don’t Have: Libraries… Read More
EBSCO announces expansion of eBook Collection with the release of 12 new Subject Sets - August 22, 2014
EBSCO Information Services has announced the release of 12 new EBSCO eBooks Subject Sets, which increases the total number of subject sets to more than 200. The subject sets are offered to libraries in convenient collections grouped by subject matter. Subject Sets are pre-packaged sets of… Read More
New edition of CAB Thesaurus published - August 22, 2014
The 2014 edition of the CAB Thesaurus, which covers agriculture, life sciences, human health, and related subjects, was published on July 21, 2014. The web site at http://www.cabi.org/cabthesaurus/ has been updated and the new thesaurus has been integrated in all of CABI's… Read More
