Bookbuilders of Boston now accepting entries for second annual NEPCo Awards - August 11, 2015
Bookbuilders of Boston is accepting entries for the second annual New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards event, which honours excellence in publishing collaboration. NEPCo showcases results achieved by two or more organisations working as partners for mutual benefit in the industry. Guidelines for entry are:… Read More
IBM acquires medical image company Merge Healthcare Inc. - August 10, 2015
American multinational technology and consulting corporation IBM Corp. has agreed to purchase medical image company Merge Healthcare Inc. for the price of $1 billion and combine it with the company's newly established health analytics division that is powered by its Watson supercomputer. The technology company… Read More
New privacy guidelines encourage libraries and vendors to work together to protect reader privacy - August 6, 2015
On June 29, 2015, the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee approved a new document, 'Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors.' The document, which outlines best practices for vendors to follow to protect the privacy of library users, is intended to encourage… Read More
Jisc works with universities and researchers to reap benefits offered from OA practice - August 3, 2015
Jisc is working to help universities and researchers reap the benefits offered from OA practice in response to the recent OA policy review by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the release of the Higher Education and Funding Council's (HEFCE) updated requirements for next year's Research Excellence… Read More
Lynn Silipigni Connaway elected President-elect of ASIS&T - August 3, 2015
OCLC Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway has been elected President-elect of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for the 2016 administrative year, and President for 2017. Connaway has been a member of ASIS&T for 25 years. She has served in a variety… Read More
Springer and Tsinghua University Press present the second Nano Research Award - July 30, 2015
Paul Alivisatos, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, has received the second Tsinghua University Press – Springer Nano Research Award. The award ceremony took place at the 2015 Sino-US Nano Forum, held from June 25-28… Read More
