McGraw-Hill Education TASC joins McGraw-Hill Education’s line-up of high school equivalency exam prep materials - April 7, 2014
McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced the publication of the McGraw-Hill Education TASC, an authoritative guide to the new high school equivalency exam, TASC Test Assessing Secondary Completion™. It claims to be the only book to contain authentic TASC test questions from CTB/McGraw-Hill,… Read More
Baker & Taylor releases new enhanced version of Axis 360 service - April 7, 2014
Baker & Taylor, a worldwide distributor of digital and print books, has announced the release of a new and enriched version of its Axis 360 service designed to improve the visual appeal and experience for library users, and to expand site administration and collection management tools… Read More
‘Research Without Borders’ panel to discuss open access in the Americas - April 7, 2014
"Research Without Borders: Open Access in the Americas", the final event of the academic year in the Research Without Borders panel discussion series will take place from 3pm -5pm on April 29, 2014 in Presidential Rooms 2 & 3 of Columbia's Faculty House. It is free and open to the… Read More
Emerald offers free access to a special journal issue highlighting library innovation - April 7, 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 change, this special issue… Read More
Accelrys speeds life science decisions with next-generation Insight - April 7, 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 database searches directly from… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 7, 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
