Brown University adopts Serials Solutions’ Summon discovery service - August 19, 2011
Serials Solutions, a business unit of US-based ProQuest LLC, has announced that Brown University Library has chosen its Summon web-scale discovery service to improve the discoverability and usability of library electronic resources for its students, faculty and staff. The Summon service seeks to enable Brown University's… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair to host new conferences on e-books and children’s publishing - August 19, 2011
The Frankfurt Academy has announced that it is adding two new conferences to its programme this year: 'Publishers Launch Frankfurt 2011 - eBooks Go Global!' on October 10 and 'Children's Publishing Goes Digital' on October 11. Both will be part of the Publishers Launch Conferences series,… Read More
Publishers have revenue opportunities from US SIG programme, says Simba report - August 19, 2011
Publishing forecast firm Simba Information, US, has released a report that says publishers of textbooks and providers of educational materials, tools and services are finding market opportunities from the US federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) programme. The programme aims to overhaul the 5,000 lowest-performing schools across… Read More
RSC President welcomes increase in number of chemistry A-levels - August 19, 2011
Prof. David Phillips, the President of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry, has observed that the big rise in number of students studying chemistry A-level reflects teenagers' value of the subject. The total number of students who entered for chemistry A-level increased by 9.2 percent from… Read More
JISC looking to recruit new interim CEO as Executive Secretary retires - August 19, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that, after 35 years of working in post-16 education and research, Executive Secretary Dr. Malcolm Read will retire in January 2012. Upon retiring, he will be following his passion for glaciology and will be travelling around Antarctica… Read More
OCLC Research to host webinar on delivery of digital copies of special collections - August 19, 2011
OCLC Research, US, is to host a webinar titled 'Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives' on September 22, 2011 at 2 pm EDT. The webinar will discuss streamlined methods for scanning and delivering digital copies of special collections materials at the… Read More
