Cengage Learning partners with Celebrus Technologies to harness the power of big data in education technology - May 9, 2014
Cengage Learning, a global educational content, technology and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets, has announced a partnership with Celebrus Technologies, a provider of tagging-free multi-channel digital big data software that captures rich behavioural data to understand how customers are… Read More
SAGE launches SAGE Research Methods Cases, an online collection of applied research methods cases - May 8, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of SAGE Research Methods Cases, a collection of real social research case studies, specially commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice. SAGE Research Methods Cases was developed for use in a college or… Read More
More than a third of contributors in Books In Print have an ISNI, reveals new Bowker analysis - May 8, 2014
A new analysis of Bowker® Books In Print shows that a full 33 percent of its contributors have the ISO-certified International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) connected with their names and in use in the database. ISNI was created just over two years ago and has topped… Read More
NISO and OAI publish ResourceSync Framework Specification – a new American National Standard for the Web - May 8, 2014
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) have announced the publication of the ResourceSync Framework Specification - a new American National Standard for the Web detailing various capabilities that a server can implement to allow third-party systems to remain synchronized with… Read More
Contributions for 6th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing called for - May 7, 2014
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, has announced that UNESCO will be hosting the 6th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, at their Paris Headquarters. The program planning for the event is well underway. As in previous years, the conference is directed towards the… Read More
Knovel offers Software Development Kit for integration with Microsoft SharePoint - May 6, 2014
Knovel has introduced the Knovel® Software Development Kit (SDK) for Microsoft® SharePoint® to make engineering resources and critical content more discoverable at the point of need. This toolkit allows enterprises using SharePoint as a Knowledge Management System to seamlessly integrate with Knovel's engineering resources. When users… Read More
