Elsevier and Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Research announce winners of 2013 Algerian Scopus Award - November 25, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education recently announced the winners of the 2013 Algerian Scopus Awards. The selected 12 winners work covers a range of academic disciplines, recognising Algeria's top researchers. The Algerian Scopus Awards program was first launched in… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health convenes expert panel to explore impact of evidence-based medicine on Canada’s healthcare system - November 25, 2013
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, brought together a panel of distinguished physician administrators from Canada's leading healthcare institutions for a series of regional seminars that explored the impact of evidence-based medicine on the country's healthcare system. Entitled 'Advancing… Read More
WorldCat Metadata API powers new enhancements in latest MarcEdit release - November 25, 2013
MarcEdit, the popular free library metadata software suite, includes new functionality that will give OCLC member libraries the ability to contribute and enhance their bibliographic and holdings data within WorldCat while using MarcEdit. The new functionality will provide catalogers with a new way to interact with… Read More
UA Libraries join HathiTrust - November 25, 2013
The University of Alabama has become one of the latest partners of Hathitrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Launched in… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 25, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (The Natural Limits of Gold Open Access); Stevan Harnad ("Our Mind's Made Up: Don't Confuse Us With Facts"); Claire Armitstead (Ebooks need more attention from their publishers); Kent Anderson (Seeing Beyond Transparency - Do Disclosure Rules Blunt the… Read More
ORCID announces changes in member agreements and new authentication-only API - November 22, 2013
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has reviewed its member agreements to incorporate feedback received from the community, as part of the organisation's first anniversary. A number of changes have been announced. ORCID hopes that these changes will… Read More
