SAGE and UC Berkeley partner to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students to publish in SAGE Open - August 7, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and the University of California, Berkeley, through its Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII), have announced a partnership designed to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students at the university to make their work available to all by publishing in SAGE Open. Launched… Read More
IEEE launches Patent Pool Exploratory Forum for IEEE 802.11 standards - August 7, 2012
Professional association IEEE, US, has announced the launch of the IEEE 802.11 Patent Pool Exploratory Forum. Through the forum, owners of patents essential to IEEE 802.11 standards will discuss licensing practices, options for licensing administration and other issues related to launching a patent pool for IEEE… Read More
Amazon launches Textbook Rental - August 7, 2012
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced the launch of Amazon Textbook Rental. College students can now choose from thousands of textbooks to rent for the semester and save up to 70 percent. All textbook rentals are fulfilled by Amazon and are eligible for… Read More
EndNote enhancement enables users to sync Web libraries, track references and import records at each stage of the research process - August 7, 2012
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a substantial enhancement to Thomson Reuters EndNote, the reference management solution used by millions of researchers and students worldwide. EndNote X6 keeps its users in step with the constantly evolving world of scholarly research and… Read More
BISG announces publication of new Policy Statement endorsing EPUB 3 - August 7, 2012
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), a US-based book industry trade association, has announced the publication of a new Policy Statement endorsing EPUB 3 as the accepted and preferred standard for representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content - including XHTML, CSS, SVG,… Read More
Universities adopting Mendeley’s data dashboard to accelerate research analytics - August 7, 2012
Various academic institutions in North America, Europe and Asia have signed up to Institutional Edition, a new data dashboard from Mendeley, a UK-based startup. The dashboard analyses the research activity and impact on the global research community in real time - down from the 3-5 year… Read More
