Global healthcare stakeholders want standards-based interoperability and communications, says IEEE-SA - December 11, 2013
Tens of billions of dollars a year reportedly slip through the cracks in interoperability and connectivity among medical devices in the United States alone, but it now appears there exists new interest to close those gaps in the global web of healthcare, says the IEEE Standards… Read More
STM seminars focus on Data and Content Enrichment - December 10, 2013
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) hosted two interesting and thought provoking seminars, STM – Innovations and STM – E-Production, in London last week. On December 4, 2013, the STM – Innovations seminar kicked off with an opening Keynote from Gerry… Read More
SCOAP3 to begin January 1, 2014 - December 6, 2013
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start January 1, 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will… Read More
Publishers Communication Group to promote ISPG in India - December 5, 2013
The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) has announced that Publishers Communication Group (PCG) will be representing the ISPG collections of journals to the Indian sub-continent starting in January. PCG is an internationally recognised sales and marketing consulting firm providing services designed to support and drive… Read More
US Department of Commerce seeks comment on Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy - November 27, 2013
The US Department of Commerce is seeking comment on the recently released Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy. In response, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), of which ARL is a member, provided comments on a number of issues raised in… Read More
Registrations for SPARC Open Access Conference 2014 now open - November 26, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced panel topics and invites participants to register for the SPARC Open Access Meeting set to take place in Kansas City on March 3–4, 2014. Advances in the areas of open access, open data, and open… Read More
