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
Thomson Reuters and Hessen University Consortium collaborate to drive the success of German scientific research programs - August 28, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with a consortium of seven Hessen universities and universities of applied science (HeFIS) to streamline its institutions' scholarly information management and workflow. The initiative utilizes Thomson Reuters Converis, a comprehensive research management system… Read More
Oxford University Press provides free access to Ebola resources to combat outbreak in West Africa - August 28, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press is offering free access to several resources across its online products and journals to researchers, healthcare workers, and policymakers in their search for effective treatment and prevention in the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Over the next three months, relevant… Read More
