Cengage Learning to highlight expanded institutional offerings at EDUCAUSE 2015 - October 23, 2015
Cengage Learning will be highlighting its expanded institutional offerings at EDUCAUSE 2015 in Indianapolis, including the company's student-centric mobile products and the recent acquisition of the education technology company Learning Objects. This year's theme—Recharge with Cengage Learning—focuses on best practices in implementing education technology and… Read More
Innovative open access agreement between Springer and Jisc to benefit UK researchers - October 23, 2015
Researchers in the UK will now be able to publish their articles open access in over 1,600 Springer hybrid journals without cost barriers or administrative barriers. The Springer Compact agreement is a pilot that combines open access publishing and subscription access in one annual fee and… Read More
EBSCO partners with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks - October 22, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has partnered with Faculty of Arts Press, Charles University in Prague, a Czech university publisher, to make its e-books accessible via EBSCO eBooks™. The first of a few collections to be made available in EBSCO eBooks is from the Varia edition series… Read More
Arizona State University selects ProQuest SIPX to reduce students’ course materials costs and enhance the educational experience - October 22, 2015
ProQuest SIPX, provider of the most complete digital course materials solutions in higher education, has signed a three-year deal with Arizona State University (ASU), the largest public university in the U.S. with over 90,000 students. ASU will integrate the SIPX Central service—a scalable, self-service configuration that… Read More
The University of Alabama at Birmingham opts for Ex Libris cloud-based solutions - October 22, 2015
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris® Group has announced that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has decided to adopt the Ex Libris Alma® library management service, Primo® discovery and delivery solution, and Rosetta digital asset management and preservation solution. The university libraries will be… Read More
UBM Tech names Alethea Yip and Jessica Davis as new Editors of InformationWeek - October 22, 2015
InformationWeek, a trusted media brand of business technology professionals, has named Alethea Yip as Managing Editor and Jessica Davis as Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps. In her new role, Alethea Yip will be guiding InformationWeek's day-to-day content creation and production process, working directly with staff editors… Read More