Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 11, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (Thumbs Down for the Freemium Model? Researchers Reject Nature's Fast Track Peer Review Experiment); Joe Wikert (Here's a dilemma every book publisher should hope to face); Eivind Engebretsen, Nina Køpke Vøllestad, Astrid Klopstad Wahl, Hilde Stendal Robinson and… Read More
Elsevier launches OA journal bridging nutrition and food science – NFS Journal - May 8, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of NFS Journal, a new open access journal. The journal is published by Elsevier in cooperation with the Society of Nutrition and Food Science (SNFS), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing together nutrition and food scientists and to advance… Read More
University of Waikato joins growing community of libraries using ProQuest Intota - May 8, 2015
The University of Waikato joins the growing community of libraries around the world using Intota™, a cloud-based library services platform. With Intota, ProQuest delivers transformative workflows that fundamentally change how libraries service their users. Empowering libraries to make data-driven decisions about… Read More
Alzheimer’s Association launches new OA journal – Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring - May 8, 2015
The Alzheimer's Association and Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association have introduced a new open access journal – creating an additional channel for Alzheimer's and dementia researchers to communicate scientific findings and knowledge. The journal, Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring… Read More
Researcher Glen Wright to be first guest editor of Wiley’s Exchanges blog - May 8, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced Glen Wright, a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris, as the first guest editor of Wiley's Exchanges blog. For one week, starting May 11, 2015, he will take over the… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect and SmartBook win three honours at 2015 CODiE Awards - May 8, 2015
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education has announced that two of its key digital products, McGraw-Hill Connect® and SmartBook®, won a total of three honours at the 2015 SIIA CODiE awards for education technology. The CODiE Awards, an annual program that recognises excellence in software development, is… Read More
