Dr. Gregory Dorn named president of Hearst Health - October 13, 2014
Hearst Corporation has announced that Dr. Gregory Dorn has been named president of Hearst Health, the healthcare division within Hearst Business Media. The appointment was announced by Steven R. Swartz, president and CEO of Hearst Corporation, and Richard P. Malloch, president, Hearst Business Media, and is… Read More
ARL membership elects ARL Board of Directors 2014–2015 - October 13, 2014
Deborah Jakubs, the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University, began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on October 8, 2014, during the ARL Membership Meeting in Washington, DC. Jakubs succeeds Carol Pitts… Read More
New AERA open access journal now accepting article submissions - October 13, 2014
AERA Open, a new scholarly journal from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), is now accepting article submissions. The publication is among the first open access journals to be launched by a scholarly social science society. The journal is edited by an inaugural team of… Read More
Rasenberger to succeed Paul Aiken as Authors Guild Executive Director - October 13, 2014
Mary Rasenberger, a six-year Copyright Office and Library of Congress veteran and partner at the media law firm Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams and Sheppard, will succeed Paul Aiken as Authors Guild Executive Director on November 3rd. Rasenberger's selection follows a national search by a committee of the… Read More
Ingram and Azymut partner to enhance content distribution in Poland - October 13, 2014
Ingram Content Group Inc. is expanding its print-on-demand (POD) and distribution reach to Poland through a Lightning Source Inc. Global Connect alliance with Azymut, a media publishing and distribution group in Poland. Ingram's Global Connect program grows the reach of physical content for publishers beyond… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 13, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (More Data, More Problems — Lessons from the Limitations of Google Flu Trends); Kevin L. Smith (Lessons from Swets: Libraries Need Subscription Security | Peer to Peer Review); Stephanie Koons (How many scholarly papers are on the Web?… Read More
