Turnitin partners with ProQuest to include dissertations from 2008 to the present - March 8, 2012
Turnitin, web-based solution for plagiarism prevention, has partnered with information resources and technologies provider ProQuest to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. With this agreement, Turnitin seeks to enhance its repository of scholarly content… Read More
European Commission allocates additional EUR 10 million to COST - March 8, 2012
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) have been informed by the European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation of their decision to allocate an additional EUR 10 million to COST. This allocation raises the total budget for COST… Read More
Harvard Library to deposit about 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust - March 8, 2012
The Harvard Library has announced that it will deposit about 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. The move follows Harvard's first deposit of about 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011. The Harvard Library, founded in 1638, claims to… Read More
Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics partner to publish new book series - March 8, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) have announced a partnership to publish a new book series - SIMAI Springer Series. Research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English will make up the series, focusing on the applications of… Read More
IOP Publishing and TEMIS sign license and services agreement - March 7, 2012
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced that it has signed a license and services agreement with non-profit scientific publisher, IOP Publishing (IOP). IOP publishes a range of journals, websites and magazines and hosts over 450,000 articles spanning… Read More
NFAIS to hold workshop on delivery of information via mobile devices - March 7, 2012
The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a one-day workshop, Mobile Devices and the Delivery of Information: An Update, on March 16, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA from 9:00am – 4:00pm EST. Virtual attendance is optional for those unable to travel to Philadelphia… Read More
