Consumer engagement takes centre stage as Publishing for Digital Minds names 2015 conference chairs - November 10, 2014
The London Book Fair, in association with The Publishers' Association, has revealed that consumer engagement will be at the top of the agenda for the seventh edition of the Publishing Digital Minds Conference as it announced the chair and deputy chair for… Read More
CERN Council selects Dr Fabiola Gianotti as next Director-General - November 5, 2014
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has selected Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the organisation's next Director-General at its 173rd Closed Session. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of the Council, and Dr Gianotti's mandate will begin on January 1, 2016… Read More
MedStar Health and Cerner sign expanded agreement - November 4, 2014
Healthcare provider MedStar Health and Cerner have announced an expanded partnership with a seven-year agreement that will streamline operations, help improve the quality of patient care and develop technologies that align with MedStar’s vision to be the trusted leader in caring for… Read More
SCOAP3 webinar to outline achievements, status and future plans of the initiative - November 3, 2014
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) is hosting a webinar on November 18, 2014 to outline the achievements to date, discuss the status of the initiative and its future plans. This webinar will be delivered in English and is targeted… Read More
NTIS expands free access to federal technical reports - October 31, 2014
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) is now offering the American public free public access to a searchable online database of approximately three million federal science and technology reports. The library is a service of the U.S. Commerce Department's National Technical Information… Read More
Webinar on Libraries, Researchers and ORCID scheduled for October 30 - October 23, 2014
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced a forthcoming webinar on Libraries, Researchers and ORCID. This webinar will explore the ways that libraries can support researchers in creating and using their ORCID iDs. The webinar will be held on October 30th, at 0800 (New… Read More
