Registrations now open for HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp 2013 - August 15, 2013
HathiTrust has announced that registration is open until August 31 for the second annual HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) UnCamp, to be held September 8–9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. HathiTrust is a partnership of major academic and research libraries that are collaborating to… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ new industry forum whitepaper on unlocking the value of research data - August 14, 2013
The volume of scholarly and scientific research data available is projected to grow by a factor of 44 over the decade from 2010 to 2020, going from 0.8 zetabytes (ZB) to more than 35 ZB (1 ZB = 1 trillion gigabytes). In response to this unfathomable amount of information, the… Read More
ALCTS announces series of four webinars on Massive Open Online Courses - August 14, 2013
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is offering a series on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as libraries and librarians carefully watch them develop. This series of four webinars will help librarians gain an understanding of the complexity of the MOOC 'movement,' learn… Read More
Call for speakers for 29th annual Computers in Libraries now open - August 13, 2013
Information Today, Inc., a key provider of technology conferences for more than thirty years with Internet Librarian and KMWorld, has announced that call for speakers for the 29th annual Computers in Libraries is now open. The annual Computers in Libraries conference claims to be the most… Read More
New study explores effects of review setting on scientific peer review - August 12, 2013
Research findings recently published in PLOS ONE report that the setting in which a scientific peer review panel evaluates grant applications does not necessarily impact the outcome of the review process. However, the research found that the average amount of discussion panelists engage in during the… Read More
Pearson to co-host workshop on digital publishing for education - August 9, 2013
Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, will co-host a workshop on digital publishing in education, EDUPUB, with the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), on October 29-30, 2013, in Boston. Co-chairs of the workshop are Paul Belfanti (Director, Content Architecture, Pearson North America) and… Read More
