Georgia Department of Education selects CTB/McGraw-Hill to develop new online standardized student assessment - July 7, 2014
CTB/McGraw-Hill, one of US's leading educational assessment partners, has announced that the Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) has selected the company to develop a new customised state assessment for all Georgia students. The project will replace the state's current Criterion-Referenced Competency Test and End of Course… Read More
Reed Technology and Information Services announces definitive agreement to acquire PatentCore - July 3, 2014
Reed Technology and Information Services Inc., a LexisNexis company, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire PatentCore, a privately held developer of the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor solution suite. The acquisition will extend the LexisNexis intellectual property (IP) offerings and give customers access to a broader range… Read More
BSZ partners with Ex Libris to develop next generation library services - July 3, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Library Service Center for Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) in Germany has decided to participate in the Ex Libris Alma Early Adopter Program for libraries in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The BSZ will actively support the… Read More
NISO members elect new leadership for 2014-2015 - July 3, 2014
The voting membership of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has elected new leadership for the 2014-2015 term that began on July 1, 2014. Gerry Grenier, Senior Director, Publishing Technologies at IEEE, Inc. will become Chair of NISO for the 2014-15 term. Mike Teets, Vice… Read More
Colorado School of Mines to use Ex Libris Alma - July 1, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group® has announced that the Colorado School of Mines (Mines), a leading science and engineering university, has selected the Ex Libris Alma resource management solution, which will complement the school's Ex Libris Primo® discovery solution. Alma will replace a number… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ new study analyses patent data and scientific literature for clues to the next decade’s biggest breakthroughs - July 1, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released The World in 2025: 10 Predictions of Innovation, a new report that predicts the landscape of science and technology in 2025 by mining global patent data and scientific literature. To conduct the study, researchers… Read More
