Copyright Clearance Center appoints Darren Gillgrass as Director, Product Management, Rightsholder Products and Services - December 16, 2014
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, has announced that Darren Gillgrass will join as Director, Product Management, Rightsholder Products and Services, in January 2015. Based in Danvers, Gillgrass will lead a team building next-generation cloud licensing and commerce solutions… Read More
NISO approves four new projects to develop standards for alternative assessment metrics - December 16, 2014
The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved four new projects to develop standards for alternative assessment metrics (altmetrics). The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Initiative was begun in July 2013 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a goal of… Read More
Wellcome Trust announces new Executive Board appointments - December 16, 2014
The Wellcome Trust has announced new appointments to its Executive Board. Tim Livett will join Wellcome Trust as Chief Financial Officer and Ted Smith as Director of People and Development. Tim Livett joins the Trust from Virgin Atlantic, where he has been Chief Financial Officer… Read More
Publishing For Digital Minds pursues global audience with multilingual social media backchannel - December 15, 2014
The London Book Fair, in association with The Publishers Association, has announced plans to put international social media at the heart of the next edition of Publishing for Digital Minds. It will recruit a team of social media experts to live-tweet and blog the 2015 conference… Read More
Retinal Cases & Brief Reports accepted for indexing by MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus - December 15, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Retinal Cases & Brief Reports, a publication dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed case reports and brief reports in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal and vitreous diseases, has been accepted for indexing by MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus. All articles… Read More
Academic libraries from the UK’s Northern Collaboration in deal with OCLC to use QuestionPoint software for out-of-hours enquiry services - December 15, 2014
Libraries from the Northern Collaboration, a group of academic libraries in the North of England, have signed an agreement with OCLC to use QuestionPoint software to provide a collaborative out-of-hours virtual enquiry service for students. The agreement with OCLC provides Northern Collaboration members with the… Read More
