Thomson Reuters to host tranSMART Community meeting - April 8, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters will host a tranSMART Community meeting in collaboration with the Pistoia Alliance and the tranSMART Foundation on April 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Thomson Reuters office at 22 Thomson Place, Boston. This meeting will… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education names Ronald Schlosser as Executive Chairman - April 8, 2013
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of Ronald Schlosser as executive chairman of its board of directors. Schlosser is a senior advisor to Apollo Global Management on investments in education, and he has extensive experience as a global… Read More
BISG study reveals correlation between genre preference and reading device selection - April 8, 2013
Multi-function tablets have become consumers' preferred e-reading devices, overtaking dedicated e-readers for the first time, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The survey is an ongoing study conducted with book research firm Bowker. Results from the first… Read More
edX collaborates with Stanford University to offer learning platform via open source - April 8, 2013
Stanford University and edX recently announced their collaboration to advance the development of edX's open source learning platform and provide free and open online learning tools for institutions around the world. edX is a not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute… Read More
NISO publishes Recommended Practice for Institutional Identifier - April 8, 2013
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Recommended Practice: Institutional Identification: Identifying Organizations in the Information Supply Chain. This Recommended Practice describes the work done by the NISO Institutional Identifier (I²) Working Group to define the requirements for a standard… Read More
ASM Press chooses Scope for enhanced metadata for its books - April 5, 2013
Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, recently completed an engagement to help enhance book content discoverability for ASM Press, the book publishing division of the American Society for Microbiology. The engagement involved the creation of two types of… Read More
