Association of Research Libraries releases second report in the New Roles for New Times series - December 21, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Research Library Services for Graduate Students (PDF), the second report in the New Roles for New Times series. This series highlights the transformation of the library workforce to address new challenges for research libraries in serving 21st-century students,… Read More
Atypon names Kevin Cohn as Chief Operating Officer - December 20, 2012
Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, has named Kevin Cohn as its Chief Operating Officer. Cohn, who has been Atypon's Vice President of Operations since 2010, will continue to report to Georgios Papadopoulos, Atypon’s CEO. Cohn will continue to… Read More
Thomson Reuters forms integrated Reuters business unit - December 20, 2012
Thomson Reuters has announced the formation of a new business unit that will combine the company's existing editorial and news-related sales and marketing operations. Stephen J. Adler, who became editor-in-chief of Reuters in February 2011, has been appointed to run the new unit as president and… Read More
Springer and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan partner to launch new book series, NIMS Monographs - December 20, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan will partner to publish a new book series NIMS Monographs. The series will publish titles on major and advanced research themes of the research institute, one of the most important in materials sciences… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and INTELECOM partnership brings core academic video collections to EBSCOhost - December 19, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that online academic video collections from INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications (INTELECOM) will be available from EBSCO. The agreement will give users access to INTELECOM’s library of core curriculum video collections through EBSCOhost, while other videos will be… Read More
NFAIS announces early bird discounts for Annual Conference in February - December 18, 2012
The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), US, has announced the early bird discounts for 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, In Search of Answers: Unlocking New Value from Content. The event will be held from February 24 - 26, 2013 at the historic Hyatt at… Read More
