Pearson to develop frameworks for OECD’s PISA student assessment for 2015 - October 10, 2011
Education services provider Pearson, US, has announced that it has been chosen by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to develop the frameworks for the latter's landmark PISA educational assessment in 2015. The PISA assessment is widely recognised as the benchmark for measuring… Read More
IOP Publishing expands customer service department - October 7, 2011
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that it is expanding its customer service provision with the appointment of a full time representative in its Philadelphia headquarters. The company already supports its customers in North, Central and South America by employing nine… Read More
Elsevier introduces SciVerse Scopus Alerts Individual mobile app - October 7, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of a new mobile application, SciVerse Scopus Alerts Individual, which provides non-institutional subscribers with immediate, on-the-go access to the latest Scopus content. While users based in subscribing institutions can already benefit from a free mobile app, this… Read More
Springer launches digitisation project, Springer Book Archives - October 7, 2011
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has started its extensive digitisation project, Springer Book Archives (SBA). The SBA initiative will include nearly all books that have been published since the 1840s. Springer expects that the book archives will contain around 65,000 titles. Titles include academically and historically… Read More
Authors groups join lawsuit against HathiTrust over orphan works - October 7, 2011
The UK Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, the Norwegian Nonfiction Writers and Translators Association, the Swedish Writers Union, the Writers’ Union of Canada, and four individual authors are among the new plaintiffs in an amended complaint filed recently in the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case. Individual… Read More
PEER report examines awareness of open access among authors and users - October 7, 2011
The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University (Department of Information Science & LISU) has completed the behavioural research commissioned by PEER. The research, which consisted of two phases, adopted mixed methods approach consisting of surveys, focus groups and… Read More
