Elsevier partners with Doctors Without Borders to help tackle Africa’s health challenges - October 26, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier and renowned international humanitarian-aid organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have agreed to cooperate in fighting the root causes of some of Africa's most vexing health challenges, including diarrhea and infectious diseases, which leave millions of people dying or severely diminished every… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair – Highlights of day 3 - October 21, 2016
The press conference with Carolin Emcke, recipient of the Peace Prize 2016, took place in the morning of day three of the Frankfurt Book Fair. The talk was in German, translated simultaneously into English. A guided tour to the Frankfurt Hot Spots, and a meet &… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 – highlights of day 2 - October 20, 2016
Numerous highlights awaited fair visitors on day two of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016. Manuel Valls, Prime Minister of the French Republic, was one of the speakers at the press conference of the Guest of Honour 2017, France. In the early afternoon, Argentinean artist Marta Minujín… Read More
CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library partner to create Coweb, a collaborative collection development for web archives - October 20, 2016
A partnership between the CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library has been awarded funding from IMLS to create Cobweb, a collaborative collection development platform for web archiving, https://github.com/CobwebOrg/cobweb. The demands of archiving the web in comprehensive breadth or thematic depth easily… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 begins - October 19, 2016
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair began with THE ARTS+, the new marketplace for the business of creativity at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, on Wednesday morning. This is the place at the fair where creativity meets technology, art meets innovation, content meets business. About 7,100 exhibitors from… Read More
EPUB 3.1 now proposed specification - October 17, 2016
The IDPF Board recently approved working group recommendations to advance the specifications of EPUB 3.1 to Proposed Specification status. A final member and public review and comment period for these specifications will be open through November 7, after which the final step according to IDPF policies… Read More
