NWO and Brill join forces in research on handwriting and image recognition - October 23, 2015
A consortium of computer scientists, historians of science and heritage professionals has been awarded funding by NWO for a research project on making illustrated handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives was submitted jointly by the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS), Naturalis Biodiversity… Read More
Cengage Learning to highlight expanded institutional offerings at EDUCAUSE 2015 - October 23, 2015
Cengage Learning will be highlighting its expanded institutional offerings at EDUCAUSE 2015 in Indianapolis, including the company's student-centric mobile products and the recent acquisition of the education technology company Learning Objects. This year's theme—Recharge with Cengage Learning—focuses on best practices in implementing education technology and… Read More
Future Medicinal Chemistry releases themed issue on the growing role of academia in drug discovery - October 23, 2015
Future Medicinal Chemistry, a MEDLINE-indexed journal published by Future Science Group, has released a themed issue dedicated to providing coverage of the presentations that took place at the 2015 Academic Drug Discovery Conference (Cambridge, UK), organised by SelectBio. The themed issue, which… Read More
EBSCO partners with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks - October 22, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has partnered with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague, a Czech university publisher, to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks™. The first of a few collections to be made available in EBSCO eBooks is from the Varia edition series… Read More
Arizona State University selects ProQuest SIPX to reduce students’ course materials costs and enhance the educational experience - October 22, 2015
ProQuest SIPX, provider of the most complete digital course materials solutions in higher education, has signed a three-year deal with Arizona State University (ASU), the largest public university in the U.S. with over 90,000 students. ASU will integrate the SIPX Central service—a scalable, self-service configuration that… Read More
ARL awarded IMLS, Sloan Foundation grant to expand and enhance SHARE - October 22, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1.2 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to expand and enhance SHARE's open data set of research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.… Read More
