Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 20, 2009
The Fifth edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Liz Wager (If comment is cheap why is peer review so expensive?); Ryan Paul (Wikipedians to vote on Creative Commons license adoption); Nicole Harris (Where is the I in Open Content?); Christian Zimmermann (Tips for authors to improve their RePEc… Read More
Elsevier Foundation calls for new grant proposals for 2009 Innovative Libraries and New Scholars Programs - April 17, 2009
The Elsevier Foundation is seeking new grant proposals for its 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars programs. Sponsored by STM publisher Elsevier, the new Foundation proposals are due by August 1, 2009. The grants for the two programmes will be awarded in December… Read More
Serials Solutions signs Western Michigan University as beta partner for discovery service - April 17, 2009
Serials Solutions, the e-resource access and management services arm of ProQuest, US, has signed Western Michigan University as a beta development site for its new Summon unified discovery service. Also participating are new content providers, including engineering society IEEE; IT publisher IGI-Global;… Read More
Knowledgespeak content now available in 29 languages - April 17, 2009
Knowledgespeak.com, a web-only publication of Scope e-Knowledge Center Pvt. Ltd, is now offering a translation widget, which will enable subscribers to access content in 29 different languages, including Chinese, Korean, German and French. The translation option is currently available in all pages… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2008 proceedings now available - April 17, 2009
The Association of Research Libraries has announced that the proceedings of the 2008 Library Assessment Conference, 'Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment,' are now freely available on the web and for purchase in print or on CD-ROM. This second Library Assessment Conference, following the successful 2006 conference,… Read More
ebrary to provide e-books to FE Colleges in the UK - April 17, 2009
e-content services and technology provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has been appointed by JISC Collections to supply e-book content and delivery platform for its multimillion-dollar e-books for Further Education (FE ) Project. Under the terms of the contract, negotiated in partnership with the company's… Read More
