Explore data management, innovation, publishing and more with spring 2014 ACRL e-learning - February 10, 2014
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is offering a wide variety of online learning opportunities in spring 2014 to meet the demands of your schedule and budget. ACRL online courses provide asynchronous, multi-week content with weekly readings and assignments. Online courses scheduled for… Read More
FCC grants one-year waiver of e-reader accessibility requirement - February 10, 2014
On January 28, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a one-year waiver exempting e-readers from the requirement that equipment used for advanced communication services (ACS) be accessible to, and usable by, individuals with disabilities. The FCC granted the waiver in response to a petition filed by… Read More
Jisc announces programme and headline speakers for Digital Festival - February 10, 2014
Jisc has announced the programme, including four headline speakers, for its upcoming Digital Festival on March 11 – 12, 2014. Keynote speakers for the 2014 Digital Festival include Sugata Mitra, TED winner and pioneer behind the Hole in the Wall project; Diana Oblinger, the CEO… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 10, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Judy Luther (Altmetrics Boosted by EBSCO’s Acquisition of Plum Analytics); Patrick Dunleavy (Why do academics choose useless titles for articles and chapters? Four steps to getting a better title); David Crotty (The UK Government Looks to Double Dip to Pay… Read More
American Geophysical Union and Wiley launch new OA journal – Earth and Space Science - February 7, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have announced the creation of a new all open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science. Marking AGU's second new open access journal in the last 12 months, Earth… Read More
Genesis Medical Center selects Wolters Kluwer Health’s software for documentation and coding - February 7, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, has announced that Genesis Medical Center has selected ProVation Medical software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding in its cardiac catheterization lab. ProVation MD Cardiology claims to be the only dedicated procedure… Read More
