Emerald offers free access to a special journal issue highlighting library innovation - April 14, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, is offering free access to a special issue from its LIS journal, Library High Tech: 'Smart space technology innovations' until April 19th as part of the National Library Week celebration. As the physical space of the library continues to… Read More
Accelrys speeds life science decisions with next-generation Insight - April 14, 2014
Accelrys, Inc., a provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software and solutions, has announced the latest releases of Accelrys Insight and Accelrys Insight for Excel. The new release of Accelrys Insight for Excel enhances scientific data analysis with important new capabilities including the ability to run… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 14, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Christopher Meyers (The lack of reward mechanisms for public scholarship severely limits the future of public engagement in the academy); Maria Kowalczuk (Are journals ready to abolish peer review?); Kent Anderson (Bitcoin and Flash Traders — Leveraging Scarcity Within the… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases The Research and Innovation Performance of the G20 report - April 11, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released The Research and Innovation Performance of the G20, a report that mines scientific research and patent information across the G20 for insights into the global strategies of the world's leading economies. The study, which… Read More
ebrary partners with Wolters Kluwer for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ebooks - April 11, 2014
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest and Wolters Kluwer are teaming up to make more than 1,000 critical medical titles available on the ebrary platform through subscription (including the award-winning Academic Complete™), patron-driven acquisition (PDA), and perpetual purchase. The Lippincott titles available… Read More
EBSCO hires three industry leaders to address discovery needs of libraries - April 11, 2014
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has hired three industry veterans to interact closely with the library community to further understand the strategic needs of each segment, and help establish the framework for next phases of library innovation through discovery. Neil Block, Gar Sydnor, and… Read More
