COAR and euroCRIS announce strategic partnership - November 26, 2012
The World Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and euroCRIS recently announced a strategic partnership. A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed at the euroCRIS members meeting in Madrid/Spain on November 6, 2012. The partnership will be based on the mutual understanding of the importance of… Read More
New Emerald publication explores impact of social media on information behaviour - November 26, 2012
Emerald Group Publishing has announced the publication of Social Information Research as Volume 5 of the Library & Information Science book series. The co-editors, Gunila Widen and Kim Holmberg, seek to explore how social networks, social interaction on the web, and social media have impacted the… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 26, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (New Media and New Markets — Making Sense of the Possibilities in Publishing); Jørgen Carling (Use your author's rights to make articles freely available); Dr. Douglas Fields (50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is… Read More
Pearson and Choice to deliver longitudinal data system for ASDOE - November 21, 2012
The American Samoa Department of Education (ASDOE) has selected Pearson and Choice Solutions Inc. to design and implement a federally funded P-20 longitudinal data system (LDS). This project is said to represent the first of its kind in the Pacific. The ASDOE currently serves 21,326 students… Read More
Holiday Notice - November 21, 2012
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on November 22 and 23, 2012, on account of the 'Thanksgiving Day' holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, November 26, 2012. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the… Read More
Elsevier and University of Surrey sign three-year agreement for SciVal Strata - November 21, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the University of Surrey, UK, have signed a three-year agreement for access to Elsevier's research performance benchmarking tool SciVal Strata. The University of Surrey is one of the few universities in the UK with a dedicated bibliometrician as part of its… Read More
