Semantico Strategy Director Rob Virkar-Yates to chair ALPSP seminar - November 16, 2012
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced that it is working with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), an international association for scholarly and professional publishers, on a seminar, entitled 'Ignore your authors at your peril. Strategies and tactics for building… 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
Very few delegate places left for London Online Information event, say organisers - November 15, 2012
The Online Information 2012 Conference and Exhibition, taking place at the Victoria Park Plaza, London on November 20-21, has announced that there are only five delegate places remaining to register. Incisive Media, the organiser, reports that almost 400 delegates have already registered for the conference.… Read More
2013 pricing for UPCC Book Collections now available - November 15, 2012
Project MUSE has announced that 2013 pricing is now available for the UPCC Book Collections, along with several new purchase options and a new current-content subscription offering. Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive… 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
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
