Cengage Launches MindTap ACE, offers seamless integration of curated OER content into courses - January 16, 2017
Education and technology company Cengage has launched MindTap ACE, a digital solution that blends curated Open Educational Resources (OER) with Cengage content. Designed to help faculty seamlessly integrate OER into their courses, MindTap ACE expands Cengage's portfolio of comprehensive learning solutions that use open resources, including… Read More
Open Access Trends 2017: Challenges and Opportunities - January 11, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has examined open access in two recent reports - Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 and Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020 - and sees several trends developing in 2017. Open access has grown from a conceptual movement to transformational force… Read More
ProQuest releases results of its 2016 Information Literacy Survey - January 6, 2017
Though 83% of librarians agree that information literacy affects college graduation rates and 97% believe that this skill set contributes to success in the workforce, 44% think that their library does not support information literacy instruction as much as it should. A recent ProQuest survey… Read More
Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results - January 4, 2017
Scientific behavioural medicine journal Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results. Some in the scientific community view null results research as a failure because, by its very definition, a null result means what you expected would happen in your study did not happen. Translational Behavioral… Read More
CAS announces early access of SciFindern to select organisations - December 27, 2016
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, unveiled SciFindern early access to key customers in November. A powerful new workflow solution with humanly-curated content at its foundation, SciFindern delivers immediately actionable results at every step of the research process. SciFindern claims to be the first… Read More
Joint white paper covering Semantic Interoperability for the Internet of Things - December 21, 2016
Technical professional organisation IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) have announced their collaborative role in the publication of a joint white paper entitled Semantic Interoperability for the Web of Things in conjunction with organisations closely tied to the advancement of the… Read More