Elsevier and Hacettepe University to host event on research performance and evaluation in Turkey - March 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the meeting: Turkey and Turkish University's Research Outputs in the Context of International Trends in Science and Collaboration Opportunities, which will take place on 12 March at the Congress Center of Hacettepe University, Sihhiye Campus in Ankara, Turkey. The meeting… Read More
Pearson joins Cambridge Service Alliance at the University of Cambridge - March 11, 2013
Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, has announced that the company is joining the Cambridge Service Alliance at the University of Cambridge, a global cooperation between businesses and universities. Through the Service's center of excellence, Pearson will partner with the University of Cambridge… Read More
Scope reaches a new milestone for TranSCIseTM - March 8, 2013
Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has announced that it has now successfully delivered more than 2.7 million English abstracts for non-English language documents. Since 2002, Scope has offered Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) services to leading STM publishers worldwide.… Read More
Springer teams up with CIC host publishing symposium to bring publishers and librarians together - March 8, 2013
STM publisher Springer and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held their first-ever publishing symposium at University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center on March 7, 2013. The gathering was established as an important opportunity to create dialogue between early-career publishers and librarians, in an effort to nurture… Read More
UK publishers, other stakeholders discuss challenges in implementing OA policies - March 8, 2013
Representatives from the UK government, funders, libraries, university administrators, learned societies, publishers and researchers came together at a conference on February 25, sponsored by five of the leading British learned societies. The agenda was to discuss the challenges of implementing the UK government policy on open access (OA) publication and… Read More
NISO publishes maintenance revisions of Dublin Core and SUSHI standards - March 6, 2013
The US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of maintenance revisions of two widely used standards: The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol. Both standards were revised to make very minor updates. The Dublin… Read More
