CABI holds 397th Executive Council meeting - February 9, 2017
Scientific publisher CABI recently held its 397th Executive Council meeting, attended by delegates representing 34 CABI Member Countries, Board Members and CABI staff. Dr Lutz Peter Berg (Switzerland), Chairman of the Executive Council, led the meeting, which took place at the International Coffee Organisation in London… Read More
Global publishers select Scope’s ConSCIse™ solution to enhance book discovery, develop abstracts and keywords for book chapters - February 8, 2017
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that more than fifteen major book publishers have now developed enriched chapter level metadata by leveraging Scope's ConSCIse solution. These leading publishers, including John Wiley & Sons, Brill… Read More
Leading US copyright experts to debate ‘Fair Use’ at Charles Clark Memorial Lecture - February 8, 2017
Delegates at The London Book Fair will in 2017 hear two eminent copyright law specialists debate one of the most controversial areas of international copyright law – the doctrine of Fair Use. Judge Pierre Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second… Read More
Wiley Education Services expands partnership with Mattersight Corporation improving student experiences and learning outcomes through data - February 8, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced that Wiley Education Services, a division of Wiley that provides solutions and services for online, hybrid, and, on-ground learning to higher education institutions, is expanding its partnership with Mattersight Corporation, the pioneer in personality-based software applications. As the… Read More
IET launches inaugural issue of new OA journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications - February 8, 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published the first issue of its latest open access journal - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. The new journal covers emerging issues including security, privacy issues and data analytics techniques in addition to classical cyber-physical systems (CPS)… Read More
Initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group now open for public comments - February 8, 2017
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced the publication of the initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public comment. In April 2016, COAR launched a working group to help identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop… Read More
