Reed Exhibitions announces new scheduling for the London Book Fair’s annual Digital Minds Conference in 2014 - February 26, 2013
Reed Exhibitions has announced that the London Book Fair 2014 will take place at Earls Court from April 8 –10 in 2014. The annual Digital Minds Conference - which will be in its sixth year - will take place on a week day, Monday, April 7,… Read More
ARL and Ithaka S+R report on sustainability of digitised special collections - February 22, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Ithaka S+R have released a report on findings from an ARL-Ithaka S+R survey of ARL libraries on the range of activities and expenses that libraries undertake to support their digitised special collections. The report, titled 'Appraising our Digital Investment:… Read More
China, Korea outpace other BRICK nations in research, says Thomson Reuters report - February 21, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has published a report titled 'Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea'. The report tracks global research publications, R&D spend and patent filings over a 10-year period to gauge benchmarks… Read More
SAGE to study library value in the developing world - February 20, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE is conducting a research study to investigate library value in the developing world. The project, 'Library Value in the Developing World' will investigate the value of academic libraries for teaching and research staff at twelve institutions selected from countries classified by the World… Read More
OCLC Research-RLUK survey examines special collections practices in UK and Ireland - February 14, 2013
OCLC Research and RLUK have collaborated to survey the special collections practices of RLUK members and OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions in the UK and Ireland. The findings from this survey as well as the resulting recommendations have just been published in a report "Survey of… Read More
Neil Gaiman to be keynote speaker at LBF Digital Minds Conference 2013 - February 13, 2013
The London Book Fair, in association with the Publishers Association, has announced that author Neil Gaiman will give a keynote speech at the fifth Digital Minds Conference on April 14, 2013. Neil Gaiman has become an internationally recognised author brand. For the last decade, his embrace… Read More
