New global initiative to create sustainable educational ecosystem giving engineering students access to diverse, rigorous and low-cost teaching materials - July 27, 2015
ARM, a registered trademark of ARM Limited, has launched a new university alliance partnership that allows industry partners to develop high quality teaching materials based on their own technologies for engineering students around the world. The hardware and software kits will be centered around ARM teaching… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 27, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Thinking about Internet Scale); Amy Freitag (Is peer-review best left to academic journals?); Kam Arkinstall (Reproducibility: what are we going to do about it?); Charlie Rapple (Start-up Generation: Characteristics and Experiences of Three Entrepreneurs); and Alistair Scott (Who’s… Read More
BioMed Central launches checklist to improve reproducibility of studies published in its journals - July 24, 2015
Open access publisher BioMed Central has launched a pilot checklist to improve the reproducibility of studies published in its journals. In recent decades, the reproducibility of a large number of scientific studies has been called into question. Researchers were able to confirm only 11 percent of… Read More
University of Salford selects integrated solution from Arkivum and Figshare to meet research data management requirements - July 24, 2015
Arkivum, the provider of ultra-safe and secure, long-term, large-scale digital data storage and archive services has announced that University of Salford has selected an integrated solution from Arkivum and Figshare in order to meet its research data management requirements. With funder mandated expectations on open… Read More
New Community Center offers a place online for library staff to share ideas about OCLC services, best practices - July 24, 2015
The new OCLC Community Center offers a place for library staff to connect online, share best practices, stay up to date on new product releases and contribute ideas to improve OCLC services. Introduced to user groups at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in June, the… Read More
Blackboard partners with Skillsoft to deliver career-development content to professional learners - July 24, 2015
Education technology company Blackboard Inc. has announced a partnership with Skillsoft, a global learning content provider, to enable direct delivery of high-quality content to professional learners via Blackboard's industry-leading teaching and learning platform. The partnership will allow Blackboard to offer learners and instructors access to… Read More
