Ten of Taiwan’s most innovative companies and academic institutions honoured during inaugural ‘Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012’ - November 16, 2012
Ten of Taiwan's most innovative companies and academic institutions were recently honoured at an award presentation during the inaugural 'Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012'. This is the first time that the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters is organising the Awards to recognize… Read More
EBSCO papers describe results of academic information supply chain survey - November 16, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Information Services Europe has released a series of five papers reporting the results of a survey on the future of the academic information supply chain. The papers reportedly cover diverse subjects and reveal some surprising insights into possible future roles… Read More
Wiley launches StatisticsViews.com, a comprehensive website for all users of statistics - November 16, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the launch of StatisticsViews.com. The new website has been created for professional statisticians, analysts, students, and any user of statistics in interdisciplinary subjects as the first place to go when looking for any information related to statistical… Read More
New streaming video resource for dentistry and oral health education now available from Alexander Street Press - November 16, 2012
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has announced that Dental Education in Video, a new streaming video resource for dentistry and oral health education, is now available for instant online access. The first release of this collection contains more than 170 high-resolution videos - including… Read More
ORCID and CrossRef collaborate to solve ambiguous author names problem in scholarly content - November 15, 2012
Two not-for profit organisations, ORCID and CrossRef, have collaborated to solve the problem of ambiguous author names in scholarly content. ORCID began assigning unique identifiers to researchers in October. As part of the ORCID Registry, individuals can search the metadata from CrossRef… Read More
Dedicated e-readers losing ground to tablets, says BISG study - November 15, 2012
E-book consumers are decidedly shifting to multi-function tablets and away from dedicated e-readers, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s ongoing Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The fourth and final installment in Volume Three of the Bowker-powered survey shows that tablets have risen by… Read More
