Alice Meadows and Douglas Wright join ORCID as new Directors - April 17, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that Alice Meadows is joining ORCID as Communications Director and Douglas Wright as Membership Director, both starting in May. Alice and Doug will be supported through a grant to ORCID from the Helmsley Charitable Trust. Alice… Read More
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives co-organise The Markets: Global Publishing Summit - April 15, 2015
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives will launch a new event – The Markets: Global Publishing Summit – to better help publishers around the world understand and create partnerships in seven important current and future markets this fall. Now that… Read More
Four Elsevier products named SIIA Content CODiE Awards finalists - April 15, 2015
Four products from STM publisher Elsevier have been named finalists for the 2015 SIIA CODiE Awards in multiple categories. Finalists represent the information industry's best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. The Software & Information Industry Association… Read More
SHARE unveils beta version of free notification service, SHARE Notify - April 15, 2015
SHARE has launched a public beta version of its free notification service, SHARE Notify, to make research more widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. Stakeholders in the research enterprise - funding agencies, institutions, and individual researchers - often find it challenging to keep track of new research… Read More
IPR License and SAGE announce partnership at LBF 2015 - April 14, 2015
IPR License, the global rights and licensing trading platform, teamed up with academic publisher SAGE to further extend its remit into the international content rights marketplace on the opening day of the London Book Fair 2015. SAGE will look to utilise… Read More
The US ISSN Center and ProQuest Metadata Integration & Cataloging Section receive ALCTS Collaboration Award - April 13, 2015
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association, has chosen The US ISSN Center and ProQuest Metadata Integration & Cataloging Section as the recipients of the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2015. The Outstanding Collaboration Citation recognises… Read More