McGraw-Hill Education appoints Stephen Laster as chief digital officer - August 17, 2012
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of Stephen Laster as the company's chief digital officer. Laster will lead the company's digital initiatives, including creating compelling digital learning experiences for students and inspiring creative innovation across all aspects of… Read More
IEEE approves dozens of standards and standards-development activities - August 16, 2012
Professional association IEEE, US, has announced dozens of new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards-development projects. Among the new standards that have been published is IEEE 2200 – Standard Protocol for Stream Management in Media Client Devices. By defining interfaces for intelligently distributing and replicating… Read More
2012 RSuite User Conference spotlight – DITA for Publishers - August 15, 2012
RSI Content Solutions, a US-based provider of content management services, has announced that attendees at the 2012 RSuite User Conference will hear how people are using the powerful combination of RSuite CMS and DITA. The 2012 RSuite User Conference is scheduled for September 20, 2012. Publishing… Read More
Totally and BMJ Evidence Centre announce strategic partnership for shared decision making programme - August 15, 2012
Totally, the AIM quoted digital health and technical solutions company, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the BMJ Evidence Centre, part of the BMJ Group, to assist the Company in the delivery of the £1.6 million national NHS Shared Decision Making contract that Totally secured… Read More
Allen Press releases 2012 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals - August 15, 2012
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has released the 2012 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals. The study, published regularly, has evolved as a result of the current economic climate and the changing nature of scholarly publishing. It… Read More
ASTM International selects Scope eKnowledge Center to provide enhanced smart content and MARC cataloging services - August 13, 2012
Knowledge services company Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope) has announced that ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards developers worldwide, has engaged the company to provide enhanced smart content services and MARC cataloguing for its highly valued content. Previously, Scope had developed a domain-specific, multi-level taxonomy… Read More
