NISO and UKSG release draft for public comment of a revision to the KBART Recommended Practice - September 6, 2013
The National Information Standards Organization and UKSG have announced the release of a draft for public comment of a revision to the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice. Issued in 2010, the original recommended practice provided all parties in the information supply chain with… Read More
Global sales in the medical publishing market fell 2.4 percent in 2012, says Simba report - September 5, 2013
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report, according to which, global sales in the medical publishing market fell 2.4 percent to $10.1 billion in 2012. The report, Global Medical Publishing 2013-2014, found that the worldwide recession had a broad impact on the… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education announces major update to McGraw-Hill Connect - September 5, 2013
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced a major upgrade to McGraw-Hill Connect, the online learning platform of choice for hundreds of colleges and universities around the country. Drawing on the feedback of more than 125 instructors at 70 institutions, McGraw-Hill Education has streamlined and… Read More
Reprints Desk’s A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection now available to over 200 member institutions of CSU’s RapidILL system - September 5, 2013
Reprints Desk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), has announced that its A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection for full-text retrieval of scholarly research papers will soon be available to over 200 academic institutions that are members of the Colorado State University's (CSU) RapidILL… Read More
LibQUAL+ opens registration for 2014 - September 5, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is inviting libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+ by registering for the 2014 LibQUAL+ survey. LibQUAL+ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users' opinions of service quality.… Read More
UK Library webinar to highlight document delivery evolution and advances - September 4, 2013
Reprints Desk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), has opened registration for the '3rd Generation DocDel for the UK,' a free document delivery webinar to be held online from 12:00-12:30 British Summer Time (BST) on September 18, 2013. Speakers will include Reprints… Read More
