Bookmasters, Baker & Taylor, Printondemand-Worldwide form partnership - April 25, 2016
Bookmasters, one of the largest providers of integrated book publishing services, and Baker & Taylor, the premier worldwide distributor of books, digital content, and entertainment products, have entered into an international partnership with Printondemand-Worldwide (PODW) to offer print… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 25, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Jon Tennant (Editorial control is a critical part of open peer review); Phil Davis (Citation Networks Yield Competitive Intelligence); Angela Cochran (Integrate to Innovate: Using Standards to Push Content Forward); Joe Wikert (Here’s how indexing could evolve with ebooks); Toni… Read More
NISTEP and Thomson Reuters collaborate to improve assessment of research funding organisations - April 22, 2016
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the implementation of unified research funders on InCites Benchmarking. This was the first outcome of the 2015 collaboration agreement with the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the… Read More
Springer journal Quantum Information Processing presents first Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award - April 22, 2016
Publisher Springer has announced that its journal Quantum Information Processing has awarded the first annual Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award to the most outstanding paper published in the journal during the previous year. The winning paper is 'Ultrastrong coupling in a scalable design for circuit… Read More
ARL’s Research Library Issues 288 highlights how research libraries are using data visualisation to improve services - April 22, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 288, an issue focusing on how research libraries are using data visualisation to improve their services and to communicate their value. The two articles in this issue were presented at the Library Assessment… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing appoints Caitlin Cornish as Head of Books Publishing - April 22, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced that Caitlin Cornish, former Publishing Director for Palgrave Macmillan, has joined Emerald as Head of Books Publishing. This significant strategic appointment of an industry big-hitter forms part of Emerald’s investment in a major new programme of academic and… Read More
