E-library project led by NGO Electronic Information for Libraries transform scholarship in Myanmar - July 27, 2015
An e-library project led by the international NGO Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) is providing instant access to resources across all disciplines for unlimited number of students to use the same book or journal at the same time. For over a year now, 166,000 students… Read More
ICIS adds CFR northeast Asia price assessment to Asian phenol price report - July 27, 2015
ICIS, an information service provider for the chemical industry, has enhanced its Asia phenol price report by adding a CFR (cost & freight) northeast (NE) Asia price assessment, to better reflect current trading patterns and give a vital benchmark for industry players operating in the region.… Read More
New global initiative to create sustainable educational ecosystem giving engineering students access to diverse, rigorous and low-cost teaching materials - July 27, 2015
ARM, a registered trademark of ARM Limited, has launched a new university alliance partnership that allows industry partners to develop high quality teaching materials based on their own technologies for engineering students around the world. The hardware and software kits will be centered around ARM teaching… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 27, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Thinking about Internet Scale); Amy Freitag (Is peer-review best left to academic journals?); Kam Arkinstall (Reproducibility: what are we going to do about it?); Charlie Rapple (Start-up Generation: Characteristics and Experiences of Three Entrepreneurs); and Alistair Scott (Who’s… Read More
BioMed Central launches checklist to improve reproducibility of studies published in its journals - July 24, 2015
Open access publisher BioMed Central has launched a pilot checklist to improve the reproducibility of studies published in its journals. In recent decades, the reproducibility of a large number of scientific studies has been called into question. Researchers were able to confirm only 11 percent of… Read More
University of Salford selects integrated solution from Arkivum and Figshare to meet research data management requirements - July 24, 2015
Arkivum, the provider of ultra-safe and secure, long-term, large-scale digital data storage and archive services has announced that University of Salford has selected an integrated solution from Arkivum and Figshare in order to meet its research data management requirements. With funder mandated expectations on open… Read More
