BibLibre and EBSCO announce partnership - September 14, 2015
A new partnership between EBSCO and the French Open Source software and services company, BibLibre, continues EBSCO's support of Open Source software that offers flexible options to libraries. BibLibre provides Open Source software and services to both large and small scale libraries in France and… Read More
OCLC to work with seven leading libraries to launch linked data pilot - September 14, 2015
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, is working with seven leading libraries in a pilot program designed to learn more about how linked data will influence library workflows in the future. The Person Entity Lookup pilot will help library professionals reduce redundant… Read More
The Charlesworth Group extends partnership with Dove Medical Press - September 14, 2015
The Charlesworth Group has announced an exclusive referral partnership with Dove Medical Press that will provide authors with high-quality editorial support. According to Caitlin Meadows, Publishing Services Director of The Charlesworth Group, this service will streamline the process of improving manuscript quality for authors seeking… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - September 14, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (What Is “Publishing” if Even a Library Can Do It?); Elizabeth Moylan (Who owns peer review?); Cameron Neylon (Researchers are not ‘hoodwinked’ victims. All choose to play the publishing game and some can choose to change it); and… Read More
2015 ALPSP Conference – An Update - September 11, 2015
The 2nd day of the ALPSP conference started with Keynote from Kuansan Wang, Director of the Internet service Research Centre, Microsoft Research. This Keynote considered the impact for the publishing and consumption of content, drawing on observations derived from a web scale data set, newly released… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair renews sponsorship for the FutureBook Awards 2015 - September 11, 2015
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that, for the third year in a row, it will be sponsoring one of the key categories at this year's FutureBook Innovation Awards. Launched by the UK's Bookseller Magazine five years ago, the awards celebrate those companies and individuals who… Read More
