ARL and Ithaka S+R awarded IMLS Grant to study digitised special collections - October 1, 2010
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants Program has awarded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA, a grant amount of $464,286 to study how libraries, archives, and museums are sustaining digitised special… Read More
The Consortium Directory now available online - October 1, 2010
Marketing services provider Frontline GMS Ltd, UK, has announced that the Consortium Directory, originally published by Frontline GMS, will become available as an online database in partnership with journal supply chain support provider Ringgold Inc. The new Directory, renamed the Consortium Directory Online (CDO), is claimed… Read More
LWW releases two interactive testing programmes for nursing students - October 1, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has launched two interactive testing programmes powered by Prep-U for nursing students. The programmes are claimed to revolutionise how students learn and prepare for the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).… Read More
CABI to provide collection of over 500 scientific titles to Bookshare - October 1, 2010
Life sciences publisher Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), UK, has announced an agreement with Bookshare to provide their collection of nearly 500 titles in the areas of agricultural, animal and veterinary sciences, environmental sciences, human health, food and nutrition, leisure and tourism, microbiology and parasitology,… Read More
Gale launches new online resource to meet needs of Internet-savvy researchers - October 1, 2010
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced Biography in Context, a new online resource developed to meet the needs of today's Internet-savvy researchers. This next-generation offering evolved from, and will replace, the Biography Resource Center database. Biography in Context joins Gale's portfolio of… Read More
STEM CELLS and International Stem Cell Symposium to present annual STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award - October 1, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell and AlphaMed Press, co-publishers of the peer-reviewed journal STEM CELLS, have announced that the annual STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award will be presented on October 2, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. The award is co-sponsored by the International Stem Cell Symposium. The US $10,000 award… Read More
