IEEE announces participation at this year’s Web Summit - November 2, 2015
IEEE has announced its participation in this year's Web Summit. Scheduled to be held from November 3-5 in Dublin, the Summit has become one of the world's most influential and international tech events. IEEE is the exclusive sponsor and host of the Enterprise X dinner,… Read More
2015 HathiTrust Board election results announced - November 2, 2015
The members of HathiTrust have elected three individuals to serve on its Board of Governors beginning January 1, 2016. Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch Librarian, Cornell University, and Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, will serve three-year terms that end in… Read More
Auckland Libraries’ new mobile app powered by Boopsie - November 2, 2015
Auckland Libraries – the largest library group in Australasia – has announced the availability of its new customised Auckland Libraries-branded mobile app developed in partnership with Boopsie Inc., a mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries worldwide. Auckland Libraries' new mobile app is available to patrons at no… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 2, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (Open Access at a Crossroads); Duncan Green (An antidote to futility: Why academics (and students) should take blogging / social media seriously); Science 2.0 Blog (Negative Citations For Papers - Who Writes Them And Why Distance Makes It… Read More
Wiley partners with The AIChE and its Society for Biological Engineering to launch new OA journal – Bioengineering & Translational Medicine - October 30, 2015
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced a partnership with The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), to launch a new quarterly, peer-reviewed, open access journal, Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. To be launched in 2016 as part of… Read More
PLOS appoints Louise Page as new Publisher - October 30, 2015
Open access journal publisher PLOS has announced the appointment of a new Publisher responsible for building on PLOS' first class publishing operation while overseeing publishing services, production operations, business development, strategy, product management and other departments. Following a thorough and rigorous search, PLOS named Louise Page… Read More
