NISO unveils new project to create a flexible API framework for e-content in libraries - August 26, 2016
Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project to modernize library-vendor technical interoperability to improve the access of digital library content and electronic books. Building upon a set of API (Application Programming Interface) Requirements developed by Queens Library, a new… Read More
NIH names Dr. Diana Bianchi as director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - August 26, 2016
The National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis S. Collins has announced the selection of Dr. Diana W. Bianchi as director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr. Bianchi is expected to join NIH on October 31, 2016.… Read More
MoU signed for the establishment and operation of an ORCID consortium for research institutions in Germany - August 25, 2016
The 'ORCID DE' project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Technische Informationsbibliothek – German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) on the establishment and operation of an ORCID consortium for research… Read More
Elsevier publishes comprehensive reference on how to build insect-based agriculture, food and biomaterials industries - August 25, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients: Production, Processing and Food Applications, edited by Aaron T. Dossey, Juan Morales-Ramos and M. Guadalupe Rojas. This book provides valuable guidance on how to build insect-based agriculture, food and biomaterials industries. A… Read More
CNPIEC to distribute EDP content to institutions throughout China - August 25, 2016
STM publisher EDP Sciences has signed an agreement in Beijing with China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation (CNPIEC) for distribution of their content to institutions throughout China on their digital platform CNPeReading. CNPIEC is the leading distributor of print publications, e-books and e-journals in… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches new OA journal Toxicology Research and Application - August 25, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that it is launching Toxicology Research and Application, a new open access (OA) journal publishing original research within the field of toxicology. Although the scope is deliberately broad, including biomarkers, modes/mechanisms of toxicity, systems toxicity… Read More
