Frankfurt Academy to hold conference on metadata strategies - August 1, 2011
The Frankfurt Book Fair will host its first conference devoted purely to metadata - MetaData Perspectives 2011 - on October 13 as part of its new 'mind network', the Frankfurt Academy. In a world where millions of new titles are published each year, it is difficult… Read More
Android tablets to surpass iPad sales by 2016, estimates Informa Research - August 1, 2011
Informa Research Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Informa plc, has predicted that tablet computers running Google's Android software will compete with Apple's iPad and surpass it in 2016. According to Informa, Apple's current 75 percent market share is expected to fall to… Read More
Scientific journals subscription renewals boost Reed Elsevier first-half profit - August 1, 2011
Publisher Reed Elsevier, Netherlands, has reportedly posted better than expected first-half results after seeing a renewal in subscriptions to its scientific and health publications. The company's pre-tax profit rose 6 percent to £662 million compared with a year ago, but revenues fell… Read More
New prototype from OCLC Research – WorldCat Identities Network - August 1, 2011
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has announced that the WorldCat Identities Network gives users the opportunity to visually explore the interconnectivity and relationships between WorldCat Identities. WorldCat Identities is a service that provides personal, corporate and subject-based identities based on information in WorldCat. The… Read More
New IEEE standard offers directions for preparing design criteria documents for transmission lines - August 1, 2011
Technical professional association IEEE, US, has announced that IEEE 1724 - Guide for the Preparation of a Transmission Line Design Criteria Document – has been approved and published. In addition, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board has approved a project to revise an existing standard… Read More
McMaster University partners with DynaMed to identify practice-changing evidence across medical disciplines - August 1, 2011
McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit and DynaMed from EBSCO Publishing have partnered to help physicians understand the scope of the medical research being published every day. As a result of the agreement, the two best systems for keeping up with medical research have come together… Read More
