Revised NISO Open Discovery Initiative Recommended Practice now available for public comment - January 27, 2020
The NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Standing Committee is inviting feedback on proposed revisions to its Recommended Practice, originally published in 2014 as NISO RP-19-2014 Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery. Librarians, publishers, vendors, and others who are interested in how content is included in… Read More
ProQuest’s TDM StudioTM service streamlines text-mining workflow, enabling researchers to gain new insights - January 27, 2020
Researchers will now be able to uncover new connections and make new discoveries using ProQuest’s TDM Studio service, a pioneering end-to-end solution for text and data mining. TDM Studio puts the power of text and data mining directly into the researcher’s hands, from their initial idea… Read More
American Library Association accepting submissions for the 2020 John Cotton Dana Award - January 27, 2020
The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting submissions for the 2020 John Cotton Dana Award (JCD). The John Cotton Dana Award is one of the most prestigious awards given to libraries and honors outstanding library public relations. Eight $10,000 awards will be provided by the… Read More
Ex Libris expands its offering with cloud-based, user-centric Rapido Resource Sharing Solution - January 27, 2020
Ex Libris, a proQuest company, has begun the development of its new Rapido™ solution for resource sharing and has established the Rapido development partner program. Rapido is built on the Ex Libris higher ed cloud platform and will be live by the end of 2020. Nine… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 27, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Data Analysis: How Effective Is TrendMD?); John Staddon (The Mess That Is Science Publishing); Roger C. Schonfeld (Global Science, China’s Rise, and European Anxiety); and Elizabeth Gadd (CRediT Check – Should we welcome tools to differentiate the contributions… Read More
Annual HIMSS-Elsevier European Digital Healthcare Award 2020 – call for submissions now open - January 24, 2020
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health, have announced a call for submissions for the Annual HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award 2020, European edition. The Awards will be presented during… Read More
