New Graduate Education Program integrates, expands and modernises legacy LIS support from across the ProQuest enterprise - August 8, 2012
ProQuest, an information company central to global research, has announced that it will combine the best of its popular development programmes for library schools to create a single, wide-ranging source that connects students and faculty with free resources designed to advance education and careers. The new… Read More
McGraw-Hill’s digital learning platforms now part of JISC Collections’ offerings to members - August 8, 2012
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections to offer its acclaimed suite of digital learning platforms to its members. McGraw-Hill Professional is a global provider of education and reference materials, information, and books for the Science,… Read More
National Geographic Learning to deliver ASCD resources for educators - August 8, 2012
National Geographic Learning (NGL), a US-based provider of educational materials for the PreK-12, higher education, adult education and ELT markets, has announced a distribution agreement with ASCD, which develops and delivers programmes, products and services for educators. NGL is part of Cengage Learning. Through this… Read More
NISO and the DAISY Consortium publish new American National Standard Authoring and Interchange Framework - August 8, 2012
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the DAISY Consortium announce the publication of the new American National Standard Authoring and Interchange Framework (ANSI/NISO Z39.98-2012). The standard defines how to represent digital information using XML to produce documents suitable for transformation into different universally accessible formats.… Read More
ARL releases final version of RLI 279 - August 8, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the final version of Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 279, which is devoted to legal concerns and evolving professional practices around digitising special collections and archival materials. A pre-publication version of this issue was released in June. The… Read More
NLM to be part of ‘Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities’ symposium - August 8, 2012
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced its first initiative as part of its recently-established partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which lays groundwork for the two institutions to cooperate on initiatives of common interest. NLM, a component of the National Institutes… Read More
