McGraw-Hill Education TASC joins McGraw-Hill Education’s line-up of high school equivalency exam prep materials - April 7, 2014
McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced the publication of the McGraw-Hill Education TASC, an authoritative guide to the new high school equivalency exam, TASC Test Assessing Secondary Completion™. It claims to be the only book to contain authentic TASC test questions from CTB/McGraw-Hill,… Read More
Baker & Taylor releases new enhanced version of Axis 360 service - April 7, 2014
Baker & Taylor, a worldwide distributor of digital and print books, has announced the release of a new and enriched version of its Axis 360 service designed to improve the visual appeal and experience for library users, and to expand site administration and collection management tools… Read More
Emerald offers free access to a special journal issue highlighting library innovation - April 7, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, is offering free access to a special issue from its LIS journal, Library High Tech: 'Smart space technology innovations' until April 19th as part of the National Library Week celebration. As the physical space of the library continues to… Read More
Accelrys speeds life science decisions with next-generation Insight - April 7, 2014
Accelrys, Inc., a provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software and solutions, has announced the latest releases of Accelrys Insight and Accelrys Insight for Excel. The new release of Accelrys Insight for Excel enhances scientific data analysis with important new capabilities including the ability to run… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 7, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Christopher Meyers (The lack of reward mechanisms for public scholarship severely limits the future of public engagement in the academy); Maria Kowalczuk (Are journals ready to abolish peer review?); Kent Anderson (Bitcoin and Flash Traders — Leveraging Scarcity Within the… Read More
Two OA journals from Chile join BioMed Central and SpringerOpen portfolio - April 4, 2014
Open access publisher BioMed Central and SpringerOpen have announced the publication of two open access journals from Chile, covering biodiversity and conservation. Biological Research and Revista Chilena de Historia Natural are the official journals of Sociedad de Biología de Chile. Biological… Read More
