IET journals show Impact Factor growth - August 29, 2014
2013 Impact Factors from Thomson Reuters have shown growth for a number of journals published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with eight of its journals improving their Impact Factor by more than 10 percent. Of particular note is IET Renewable Power Generation… Read More
Atypon’s Literatum platform to host all ICE Publishing content from mid-2015 - August 29, 2014
ICE Publishing, a leading provider of information in the fields of civil engineering, construction, and materials science, has announced a partnership with Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry. Under the deal, Atypon's Literatum platform will host all ICE Publishing content… Read More
Walters State Community College partners with McGraw-Hill Education to provide all-digital learning experience to undergraduate biology students - August 29, 2014
Walters State Community College has teamed with McGraw-Hill Education to offer an all-digital course experience designed to engage and drive the performance of its biology students. As part of the collaboration, students taking biology courses will receive their course resources, including content and assessment, through McGraw-Hill… Read More
World Scientific brings new e-book collections to Universiti Brunei Darussalam - August 29, 2014
Almost 4,000 e-books published by STM publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press were made available to students and faculty members at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) through a new agreement. The agreement is part of the university's mandate to develop better capability and resources… Read More
Portico to host webinar on e-book preservation - August 29, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico is organising a 45-minute webinar on e-book preservation. The webinar is scheduled for September 10, 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Amy Kirchhoff, Portico archive product manager and co-author of ‘Preserving E-books,’ a new Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) TechWatch report, will answer the question… Read More
Holiday Notice - August 29, 2014
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on September 1, 2014 on account of Labor Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the August 29th issue. Read More
