US Dept. of Justice refutes objections raised over e-book pricing deal - August 24, 2012
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said that arguments made by various organisations objecting to the final judgment reached between the government and Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster over e-book price fixing charges raise no real new issues. The DoJ has therefore asked that… Read More
Elsevier launches third global CodeForScience competition - August 24, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier has launched its third global CodeForScience (CFS) competition in collaboration with The National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management University (SMU). CodeForScience is a global series of application development competitions for scientists, researchers and developers. CFS Singapore is… Read More
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journals join OUP - August 24, 2012
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene has announced that two of its journals will join the Oxford University Press (OUP) collection in a new partnership announced between the organisations. The journals, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and International… Read More
SAGE set to publish two journals of the Australian Council for Educational Research - August 24, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has announced a new agreement to publish its two journals - The Australian Journal of Education and The Australian Journal of Career Development - from April 2013. The Australian Journal of Education claims to… Read More
Registrations now open for ARL-ACRL Human Resources symposium - August 24, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with the Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is hosting a Human Resources Symposium. The event is scheduled for November 15–16, 2012, in Washington, DC. Registration for… Read More
Latest version of NCIP to support interoperability for resource sharing - August 24, 2012
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), US, has announced the publication of the two-part American National Standard on the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), ANSI/NISO Z39.83. NCIP addresses the need for interoperability among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing and self-service applications by standardising the exchange… Read More
