ProQuest SIPX recognized as a way to reduce adoption barriers to OER content - January 8, 2016
ProQuest SIPX is paving the way for higher education institutions and campus leaders to reduce students' cost of education by leveraging increased use of open educational resources (OER) as part of the SIPX® complete course materials solution. ProQuest SIPX has generated more than $3.6million to… Read More
The Optical Society announces new Editors-in-Chief for three journals - January 8, 2016
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced three new editors-in-chief. Christoph Hitzenberger, P. Scott Carney and Alexandra Boltasseva have been appointed as the new editors-in-chief of Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America A and Optical Materials Express, respectively. Christoph Hitzenberger, Biomedical Optics… Read More
The Society for Scholarly Publishing to continue its Librarian Focus Group sessions at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC - January 8, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) continues its Librarian Focus Group sessions with "Provoking thoughts: The End of Libraries and Publishers as We Know It". This will be a panel session held in Washington, DC, on February 2, 2016 at the American Geophysical Union. The day-long… Read More
IOP Publishing launches new journal Quantum Science and Technology - January 8, 2016
IOP Publishing has announced the launch of Quantum Science and Technology, a new, high-impact journal designed to serve the full range of subject disciplines, extending across academia and industry, now engaged with advances in fundamental quantum information science and related quantum-enabled technologies. The journal will… Read More
NISO receives two grants to undertake creation of a framework on data and privacy - January 8, 2016
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has received two grants to develop a consensus framework for mitigating and managing the privacy risks related to the collection, preservation, sharing, use, and re-use of research data sets. The grants from both the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the… Read More
Ex Libris announces Linked Data collaboration program - January 8, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest® company, has formed a program to help Ex Libris harness Linked Data technology in its resource management and discovery solutions. Institutions that have already joined the program include Boston College and University of Oklahoma in the US; University of Manitoba in Canada;… Read More
