Publishing services a key growth area for academic libraries, says SPARC report - November 2, 2011
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new report on behalf of a team of researchers from the libraries of Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Utah. The “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success” research project suggests that… Read More
ebrary announces initial results of 2011 Global Student E-book Survey - November 2, 2011
E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, has announced the initial results of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey. A comparison of the new survey with the same survey conducted in 2008 implies that aggregators, publishers, and librarians need to better collaborate to address students' information… Read More
Elsevier announces availability of Urban and Fischer Journal Archives on SciVerse ScienceDirect - November 2, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of Elsevier Urban & Fischer Journal Archives, three new backfile collections in the life and health sciences, on SciVerse ScienceDirect. The new backfiles, published in English under the German imprint Urban & Fischer, contain journals concerning immunology and… Read More
MarkLogic executive Chris Biow on Big Data panel at TDWI forum - November 1, 2011
Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced that Chris Biow, CTO, MarkLogic Public Sector, will be part of a panel discussion on Big Data analytics at the TDWI Big Data Analytics For Business Insight Forum. The conference is scheduled for October 31, and November… Read More
Open resource to support PhD scholars with research data management unveiled - October 31, 2011
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that an online training course to help disseminate good practice in research data management is now free to use by PhD students, early career researchers and digital data users at all UK universities. It was developed at the… Read More
Elsevier and EarthChem implement two-way linking for Earth Sciences content - October 28, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and EarthChem, a portal facilitating discovery and accessibility of a consortium of databases, have implemented two-way linking between their respective Earth Sciences content. Elsevier-published research articles from 32 journals, hosted on SciVerse ScienceDirect will be automatically linked to the corresponding research datasets… Read More
