Macmillan Learning joins Educational Publishers Enforcement Group to fight against counterfeit and piracy practices in education - February 22, 2018
Macmillan Learning, a premier education solutions company, has announced an agreement to join the Educational Publishers Enforcement Group ("EPEG") and will formally endorse the Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices ("Best Practices") created by EPEG and its partners. By joining this team of content providers including Cengage, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill… Read More
Frontiers and the California Institute of Technology form OA publishing agreement - February 22, 2018
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has formed an open access publishing agreement with Frontiers. The Caltech Library supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the Caltech Library has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the… Read More
OCLC extends Digby mobile app to libraries worldwide - February 22, 2018
OCLC is extending its Digby mobile app to libraries worldwide, offering student library workers, volunteers and staff greater efficiency, accuracy and independence working with WorldShare Management Services. The move follows a successful launch in the United States. As a suite of web-based applications, WorldShare Management… Read More
Atypon’s Artificial Intelligence R&D awarded four BioASQ Awards in semantic technology categories - February 22, 2018
Atypon has been placed in the widely respected International BioASQ Awards competition for the fifth year in a row. Atypon's ongoing research and development (R&D) into artificial intelligence technologies led to four awards for four different semantic technology categories in the 2017 BioASQ Challenge. BioASQ… Read More
Elsevier and Hypothesis collaborate to integrate open annotation - February 21, 2018
Elsevier, an information analytics business specialising in science and health, and Hypothesis have announced a collaboration to align annotation capabilities in Elsevier's Research Products with the emerging ecosystem of interoperable clients and services for annotation based on open standards and technologies. Hypothesis is a non-profit dedicated… Read More
The 17th Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences announced - February 21, 2018
The Wiley Foundation has announced that the seventeenth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Lynne E. Maquat for elucidating the mechanism of nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay, a fundamental process whereby cells remove defective transcripts that can encode toxic proteins. Dr. Maquat… Read More
