France will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017 - June 18, 2015
Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Anne Tallineau, Deputy Executive Director of the Institut français and Interim Executive President, signed, in the presence of Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communication, and of Olaf Scholz, Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany in… Read More
ARL publishes issue brief on fair use in text and data mining - June 16, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released an 'Issue Brief: Text and Data Mining and Fair Use in the United States,' which describes the role and usefulness of text and data mining, provides a short background of fair use, and presents an analysis of fair… Read More
Elsevier provides free online access to medical information to help contain MERS outbreak in South Korea - June 16, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier will provide free access to its primary online clinical information and reference tool, ClinicalKey, for 30 days to all users within South Korea. This initiative was launched to support healthcare professionals and quarantine aid-workers in South Korea, which has been plagued with the… Read More
NIH approves strategic vision to transform National Library of Medicine - June 12, 2015
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis S. Collins approved a federal report that lays out the long-term scientific vision for the NIH's National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest biomedical library. This vision, presented at the 110th meeting of the Advisory Committee to the… Read More
Ohio Libraries go mobile with Boopsie via OHIONET partnership - June 11, 2015
Boopsie, Inc., a mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries worldwide, has announced that many library users throughout Ohio can now enjoy on-demand access to ebooks, databases and other trusted library resources via a library-branded mobile app on all major device types. Boopsie announced that Cuyahoga Falls Library… Read More
Unbound Medicine and APHA release latest edition of Control of Communicable Diseases Manual for Mobile Devices and the Web - June 10, 2015
Unbound Medicine, a knowledge management solutions provider for healthcare, and the American Public Health Association (APHA) have announced the release of the latest edition of Control of Communicable Diseases Manual for Mobile Devices and the Web. Recent epidemics, such as the Ebola outbreak, prove how… Read More
