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
Mike Walsh, Rosalind Picard to give keynote addresses at DESIGN East event - August 10, 2012
UBM Electronics, a US-based provider of media and marketing solutions for the design engineering and the electronics industry, has announced that Mike Walsh and Prof. Rosalind Picard will deliver keynote addresses at DESIGN East, a design engineering conference and exhibition to be held in Boston in… Read More
BioMed Central to present Challenges in Malaria Research: Progress towards elimination conference - August 10, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that it will present its second malaria conference, ‘Challenges in Malaria Research: Progress towards elimination' at the University of Basel, Switzerland from October 10-12, 2012. The publisher will present the conference in conjunction with its journals Malaria Journal… Read More
LibQUAL+ post-conference workshop at 2012 Library Assessment Conference - August 10, 2012
The LibQUAL+ team has announced the availability of a few spots for the daylong workshop 'Working Effectively with LibQUAL+' on November 1, 2012, following the Library Assessment Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia. Led by Raynna Bowlby and Martha Kyrillidou (Association of Research Libraries),… 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
