Harper College partners with Blackboard to provide mobile access to campus services - April 4, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc, US, has announced a partnership with Harper College to provide information and mobile access to campus services with the ultimate goal of increasing graduation rates. Harper has adopted Blackboard Mobile Central as part of its long-term strategy to… Read More
Elsevier to integrate geological maps from the Society for Sedimentary Geology into Geofacets - April 3, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will integrate about 18,000 geological maps from the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) into its web-based research tool Geofacets. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, SEPM is home to some of the most esteemed journals and must-have resources for geological… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education working with US govt. initiative to advance digital learning in schools - April 3, 2012
Officials from the US Department of Education (DoE) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently brought together leaders from the digital education industry to formulate a unified strategy for moving the nation’s K-12 classrooms into the digital age. Among the education and technology industry leaders… Read More
JISC invites humanities and social science researchers to participate in online survey - April 2, 2012
The UK’s JISC is inviting humanities and social science researchers to participate in an online survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/oapenukresearcher) to help JISC Collections understand the future of the monograph. In an open access model the monograph is made freely available, but the process… Read More
MarkLogic World 2012 event to offer keynotes, case studies, industry trends on Big Data - March 30, 2012
Enterprise software firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced that Big Data experts will join the company at MarkLogic World 2012. The event will take place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC from May 1-3, 2012. Participants at the event can expect to meet… Read More
Thomson Reuters publishes paper on latest lexicon of US healthcare reform - March 29, 2012
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has published a new paper called ‘Vocabulary of Healthcare Reform’. The paper seeks to explain the new reform terminology along with insights to augment the definitions of these terms. In addition to comprehensive overview of the buzz words and… Read More
