Jisc annual conference scheduled for March 2014 - May 29, 2013
Jisc has announced that its annual conference will be held at the ICC in Birmingham on March 11-12, 2014. After a two-year break the conference is taking a new guise as the Jisc Digital Festival. The event will again bring together expertise and knowledge to… Read More
Scope to participate at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing - May 23, 2013
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that Rich Kobel, Associate Vice President of Business Development at Scope, will moderate a session titled "Enhancing Discoverability of Book Content" at the Annual Meeting of the Society… Read More
Optimal Medicine and Wiley collaborate to enhance a new clinical decision support solution for mental health disorders - May 23, 2013
Optimal Medicine, a personalized medicine company dedicated to improving healthcare through state-of-the-art software, and publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. have announced their collaboration on mehealthT, an online clinical decision support for mental health disorders. mehealthT enables clinicians to provide patient-centric care, informed by evidence-based… Read More
Elsevier and GSA collaborate to add over 60,000 maps to Geofacets research tool - May 21, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a collaboration with The Geological Society of America (GSA), a prestigious society serving geosciences professionals worldwide. The collaboration will formally launch in September through the integration of more than 60,000 geological maps from GSA’s flagship journals, book series and the… Read More
Blackboard and Vital Source launch integrated offering - May 21, 2013
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc., US, and Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, have launched pilot programs with a number of colleges and universities to test-drive an integrated offering that makes the VitalSource Bookshelf platform and its hundreds of thousands… Read More
Bowker uPublishU sessions to assist aspiring authors connect with audiences - May 17, 2013
ProQuest affiliate Bowker will be an industry sponsor at uPublishU at BookExpo America (BEA), the acclaimed conference for self-publishers. The company will host three sessions entitled 'Get To Know Your Key Audience & Where To Reach Them,' 'Making Your Metadata Rock,' and 'Understanding How to Distribute… Read More