ACRL establishes four new discussion groups - April 23, 2012
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has announced the establishment of four new discussion groups, which were approved by the ACRL Board of Directors during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. The new discussion groups are: The Digital Humanities Discussion Group; The International Perspectives on Academic… Read More
Blackboard Partners with Plantijn Hogeschool to host Teaching and Learning conference - April 23, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc, US, has announced details of the Teaching and Learning Conference 2012, one of the largest annual gatherings of leaders from IT and education in the region. The event is expected to draw attendees from 89 institutions and 17… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 23, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Thinking Through a Strategy for Digital Rights Management); Steve Johnson (More ‘hybrid’ academic and policy researchers are needed to increase effective communication between the political and academic spheres); Joe Wikert (DoJ: Consumer Hero or Predator Enabler?); David Crotty… Read More
CABI re-index improves searching and retrieval for database products - April 20, 2012
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that more than 9 million records on CAB Direct have been re-indexed to bring them into line with the controlled vocabulary of the updated 2011 CAB Thesaurus. This has standardised indexing and searching across all database records from 1910… Read More
Wrong OA policy may hurt UK’s publishing industry, says RSC chief - April 20, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has responded to the Research Councils UK (RCUK)’s Proposed Policy on Access to Research Outputs to help inform RCUK on enhancing scientific communications in a sustainable manner. Adopting the wrong open access (OA) model would ‘destroy scientific communications’, RSC chief… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications sign agreement to bring academic video database to EDS - April 20, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, recently announced an agreement with INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications. Mutual customers of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and the INTELECOM Online Resources Network will benefit from this deal. The agreement adds metadata for all videos from INTELECOM’s academic video database… Read More
