Jay Jordan to step down as OCLC President and CEO - June 28, 2011
Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that Jay Jordan will retire as President and CEO of OCLC Online Computer Library Center on June 30, 2012. The announcement was made by the OCLC Board Chair Larry Alford at the OCLC President's Luncheon during… Read More
Co-Action Publishing and International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm announce publishing partnership - June 28, 2011
Open access (OA) scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced that it has been selected by the International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (IMI) to publish the institute's two journals - Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography and Tellus Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology -… Read More
Access Knowledgespeak using your smartphones and mobile devices via Myscoope.com - June 28, 2011
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available in a mobile browser version and a Java application version. Smartphones and Tablets – We publish a mobile browser version for smartphones and tablet PCs. This is accessible at www.myscoope.com, a site designed specifically… Read More
Gartner special report examines means to gain value from ‘big data’ - June 28, 2011
Technology research firm Gartner, Inc., US, has released a special report titled "Pattern-Based Strategy: Getting Value from Big Data". The report provides links to numerous reports that examine key issues related to managing 'big data', a popular term used to acknowledge the exponential growth, availability and… Read More
Asia leads research output in materials science, says Thomson Reuters study - June 28, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has released a study according to which, the volume of research papers published in the field of materials science is currently being driven by Asia and in particular China. China has overtaken the US and Japan to become the largest… Read More
Three leading research organisations set to launch open access journal for biomedical and life sciences - June 28, 2011
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust have announced that they are to support a new, top-tier, open access journal for biomedical and life sciences research. The three organisations aim to establish a new journal that will attract and define… Read More
