CLOCKSS Archive certified as trusted digital repository - July 29, 2014
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has announced the completion of an eight-month audit of the CLOCKSS Archive and has certified the CLOCKSS Archive as a trustworthy digital repository. CLOCKSS claims to be the only organisation to earn a perfect score of… Read More
IHS and Oxford University Press in deal to bring authoritative engineering reference books to broad engineering community - July 28, 2014
IHS Inc., a global source of critical information and insight, and Oxford University Press (OUP) recently announced that a collection of authoritative engineering reference books from OUP have been integrated into the IHS cloud-based technical research solution. This solution, called IHS Knowledge… Read More
ProQuest Intota set to transform electronic resource management at Higher Colleges of Technology - July 28, 2014
ProQuest has announced that the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) have selected ProQuest Intota™ to help improve their existing workflow and ensure better control and visibility over the usage of their collections. Founded in 1988 with four colleges, the Higher Colleges of Technology have grown… Read More
Healthcare sciences publisher PLM partners with IBM to launch mobile apps to deliver better patient care - July 28, 2014
Multinational technology and consulting corporation IBM has announced that PLM, a Latin American healthcare sciences publisher, has launched a library of mobile apps to deliver medical information on conditions such as cancer and heart disease. Healthcare providers using a mobile device can… Read More
Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care to be re-launched as the International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare - July 28, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced that the journal formerly known as Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, will be re-launched as the International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (IJHRH) from the first issue of 2015. The title change reflects the journal's… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 28, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Your Question for the Day — What Is "Peer Review"?); Michael Kozlowski (90% of US Libraries now Loan out eBooks); Sarah Necker (Scientific Misbehavior in Economics: Unacceptable research practice linked to perceived pressure to publish); Phil Davis (Libraries… Read More
