Nobel Laureates’ publications now open for free access in SPIE Digital Library - October 13, 2014
Research papers published by six 2014 Nobel Prize recipients whose accomplishments in physics and chemistry have been enabled by photonics are being made freely available in the SPIE Digital Library through the end of 2014. The innovations recognized for this year's Nobel prizes in Physics and… Read More
Day 3: Frankfurt Book Fair highlights - October 10, 2014
The fifth edition of StoryDrive will celebrate the heroes in and behind the story. Speakers include Cyber-Philosopher Alexander Bard, Publisher Michael Bhaskar, Best-Selling Author Reif Larsen, script writer Stefano Bises and many more. Perspectives in Education: "Across Boundaries – an Education Melting Pot": CEOs of various international educational publishing… Read More
National Library of the Netherlands in deal with OCLC to add four key collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat - October 10, 2014
The National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has entered into an agreement with OCLC to add four important collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat for discovery of these valuable resources worldwide. The extensive and historically significant… Read More
Plymouth University collaborates with Vital Source Technologies to launch largest e-textbook programme in the UK - October 10, 2014
Plymouth University has announced a collaboration with Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, to provide textbooks for their institution-wide digital initiative, which is the largest e-textbook programme ever undertaken in the UK. Plymouth University's e-textbook programme, launched this… Read More
Infotrieve and National Research Council of Canada extend information delivery and library services partnership - October 9, 2014
Infotrieve, Inc., a leader in global-enterprise SaaS software and business services for scientific, technical and medical ("STM") published content access and management, has announced that it will extend its current partnership with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to exclusively provide information delivery and library… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 – Day 2 highlights - October 9, 2014
On the second day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, EDP Open, the Open access arm of EDP Sciences, released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open Access amongst learned society publishers. The survey was answered by 33 Learned societies and results were further… Read More
