SPARC Europe calls for nominations for the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - March 14, 2011
SPARC Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations and research institutions, will be accepting nominations for the sixth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications and Open Access. Nominations are open to individuals or teams, preferably within Europe, who have made… Read More
CIRM to partner with AlphaMed to publish Stem Cell research journal - March 14, 2011
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has announced that it will partner with AlphaMed Press to create an online open access research journal called Stem Cells Translational Medicine. Stem Cells Translational Medicine will focus on translational aspects of stem cell… Read More
JISC Inform’s digital edition looks at financial and business challenges in colleges and universities - March 14, 2011
The Spring 2011 issue of the JISC Inform interactive digital newsletter looks at how digital technologies can help address today's financial and business challenges in colleges and universities. Professor Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol and keynote speaker at the ongoing JISC's annual… Read More
Farm Journal Media receives Grand Neal Award - March 14, 2011
Farm Journal Media has received the coveted Grand Neal Award during American Business Media's 57th Annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards ceremony, held at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. The winning entry, 'The Farm Journal Legacy Project,' from the company's print and… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 14, 2011
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (The Terrible Price of Free: On E-reading Jane Austen via Google's Ebooks);. Stevan Harnad (Canada's 17 NRC Journals No Longer OA: A Tempest in a Teapot); Eric Zorn (Libraries facing the e-book challenge); Marc Gunther (Can Social Media… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - March 14, 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