Cengage and University of Missouri System partner to offer Cengage Unlimited subscriptions to all students - November 19, 2018
Cengage, an education and technology company, has announced that the University of Missouri System will be offering Cengage Unlimited subscriptions to all students enrolled in Cengage courses beginning in January 2019. Cengage provides course materials to 11 million of the 20 million students pursuing higher education.… Read More
ARL, Wikimedia, and Linked Open Data – Draft white paper open for comments through November 30 - November 19, 2018
In June 2018, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) charged a task force to look at Wikidata. The task force emerged from several years of discussion between ARL and the Wikimedia Foundation on where the two communities can effectively collaborate. The focus on Wikidata and Wikibase… Read More
OCLC and Atlas Systems to develop ILLiad for library community - November 19, 2018
Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC and Atlas Systems have a long-standing partnership, and both companies are focused on putting library needs first. As a result, in addition to continuing the rapid development of Tipasa, the industry's first cloud-based ILL management system, OCLC and Atlas Systems have… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 19, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Pierre Montagano (Transforming the Research Paper into a Functional Tool); Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, and Gert G. Wagner (The overall incidence of published replication studies in economics is minuscule – greater incentives are required); Alexander C. Kafka (Will… Read More
ConTech 2018 opens in just two weeks’ time - November 16, 2018
ConTech 2018 tickets are going out this week. The inaugural ConTech opens in just two weeks' time. Every organisation creating and managing content collects mountains of data on its users and content - some valuable, some not. Using techniques like artificial intelligence, machine learning and… Read More
Elsevier integrates Geofacets with Esri ArcGIS to help geoscientists find information faster - November 16, 2018
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced the integration of Geofacets, its information solution for exploration and development, with ArcGIS, the flagship product of Esri®, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software. Researchers can now seamlessly discover and… Read More
