McGraw-Hill Higher Education and Blackboard announce business partnership - July 15, 2010
Learning management systems provider Blackboard, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Both parties will introduce a new, best of class learning management offering that joins McGraw-Hill's media-rich content, assessment engines, and industry leading adaptive learning tools… Read More
Canadian municipal library lending Kindle devices to patrons - July 15, 2010
The West Vancouver Memorial Library has reportedly become the first library in Canada to let cardholders borrow a Kindle e-books reader. The municipal library has bought six of these devices developed by Amazon.com. As part of an e-reader pilot project, the library began lending out five… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Harvard Business School announce new publishing partnership - July 15, 2010
The Harvard Business School has announced a partnership with Cambridge University Press to publish the journal Business History Review (BHR) from 2011. Claimed to be the oldest journal in its field, Business History Review began publication in 1926 as the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society… Read More
British Library initiative to preserve the sounds of 2010 for the future - July 15, 2010
The British Library is initiating an interactive survey, UK SoundMap, launching as a regional trial in Sheffield. The survey will map the sounds of the acoustic landscape ('soundscape') and preserve the sounds of 2010 for the future. In collaboration with the Noise Futures Network and Audioboo,… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - July 15, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
Paper on impact of Google Book Search project published - July 14, 2010
UC Berkeley law professor Pamela Samuelson has published a paper titled 'Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace', according to the Open Book Alliance (OBA). Samuelson is an advocate for the public interest in the Google Book Search (GBS) debate. In the paper,… Read More
