Wiley announces enhancements to Custom Select programme - March 17, 2011
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced enhancements to its Custom Select programme that enable Higher Education instructors to select content at the sub-chapter level to use in customised course materials. Wiley Custom Select was first launched in 2009 to enable higher education… Read More
ARL, Digital Library Federation to hold METS workshop in June - March 17, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Assessment Program and the Digital Library Federation, a programme of the Council on Library and Information Resources, are offering a third, five-day METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) workshop. Called "The Basics and Beyond", the workshop will be… Read More
Eight international research funders announce participation in round two of the Digging into Data Challenge - March 17, 2011
Eight international research funders jointly announced their participation in round two of the Digging into Data Challenge, a grant competition designed to spur cutting edge research in the humanities and social sciences. Digging into Data offers the arts and humanities and the social sciences the opportunity to explore new… Read More
Tel Aviv University opts for Ex Libris Primo, with the Primo Central Index - March 17, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Tel Aviv University has selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution, together with its Primo Central Index of scholarly content. The University's over 30,000 students and staff will now gain easy, unified access to the… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - March 17, 2011
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Elsevier launches web-based research performance tool – SciVal Strata - March 16, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of SciVal Strata. SciVal Strata is a web-based research performance tool that offers users the flexibility to construct relevant contextual data to evaluate research teams or individual researchers, using a range of indicators based… Read More
