Cengage Learning appoints Michael Hansen as new CEO - August 13, 2012
Cengage Learning, a US-based provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions, has announced the appointment of Michael Hansen to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Hansen will succeed Ron Dunn, who has served as CEO since July 2007. Effective upon the commencement of… Read More
Duke University Press to preserve e-journals in CLOCKSS Archive - August 13, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced a partnership with the Duke University Press to preserve their e-journals in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Duke University Press has committed… Read More
Northwestern University joins VIVO network with Elsevier’s SciVal Experts - August 13, 2012
Northwestern University, in collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in VIVO, a semantic network that enables the discovery of researchers across institutions. By bringing its researchers together in a single hub called Northwestern Scholars, an implementation of Elsevier's SciVal Experts research networking… Read More
Biotechnology and Ecology sections added to ScienceIndex under Biological Sciences - August 13, 2012
ScienceIndex.com, a biotechnology and ecology sciences social network, has now included the two new categories of Biotechnology and Ecology under the field of Biological Sciences. While the Biotechnology section covers the utilisation of bacteria, yeasts and other biological substances for industrial and manufacturing processes, the Ecology… Read More
Google to pay $22.5 million to settle FTC charges on misrepresentation to Safari users - August 10, 2012
Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million civil penalty to settle US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges. According to the charges, Google misrepresented to users of Apple Inc.'s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking "cookies"… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and Time To Know partner to develop digital teaching platform for K-12 schools - August 10, 2012
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with educational innovator Time To Know to develop an all-digital, data-driven differentiated teaching and learning platform for one-to-one computing classrooms. This partnership will combine McGraw-Hill Education's proven content and educational… Read More
