Digital instructional materials gaining ground in Science/STEM Education, says new EMR/Simba Information study - June 23, 2015
The national trend of shifting to the use of digital instructional materials in the classroom is affecting science/STEM education, according to findings in Science/STEM Market 2015, a new study from Education Market Research (EMR)/Simba Information. EMR's survey data indicates that the market share owned by… Read More
International Association for Continuing Education and Training awards accreditation status to Elsevier’s DirectCourse - June 23, 2015
The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded accreditation status to Elsevier's DirectCourse, which provides online learning designed to train the direct service workforce that supports persons with disabilities by helping them remain in home and community settings and… Read More
Italy to implement ORCID on a national scale, signs three-year consortium membership agreement - June 23, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that Italy will be implementing ORCID on a national scale, and has signed a three-year consortium membership agreement with ORCID. Under the auspices of ANVUR and CRUI (the Conference of Italian University Rectors), 70 universities and… Read More
The Optical Society journal portfolio continue to lead in the Optics Category in new JCR rankings - June 23, 2015
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its journal portfolio again leads the Optics category in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) (Thomson Reuters, 2015). Not only does OSA remain the foremost publisher in the field with the largest number of articles published… Read More
Gale indexes millions of pages of content with Google and library discovery services for easier access and improved researcher workflow - June 23, 2015
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is supporting discovery by working with Google to index millions of documents in Google Scholar, and expanding the amount of content indexed by major library discovery services. In addition, Gale is promoting transparency in discovery through compliance with industry information… Read More
SICOT‐J publishes first articles - June 23, 2015
The first articles of the new open access journal SICOT‐J are now available. SICOT‐J is a fully Gold open access journal in orthopaedics and traumatology. The journal places a high priority in rapid publication and seeks to publish a broad range of research study types… Read More
