CCC and RightsDirect announce webinar series ‘Copyright in Motion: International Edition’ - March 26, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, and RightsDirect, CCC's wholly owned European subsidiary, have announced the "Copyright in Motion: International Edition" webinar series, beginning April 23, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST. The webinars will explore the changing ways people around the… Read More
IOS Press celebrates International Year of Statistics - March 25, 2013
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced that it is supporting the International Year of Statistics to promote awareness and public understanding of the power and impact of statistics on all aspects of society. According to IOS Press, statistics is becoming more acute as academia, businesses… Read More
Submissions now open for new Genome Biology special issue - March 25, 2013
Genome Biology, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, is now accepting Research, Method or Software manuscript submissions to be considered for publication in a special issue on "the RBPome", planned for late 2013. Advances in genomics have vastly improved our ability to investigate the… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education appoints Mark Dorman as President of international division - March 25, 2013
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of media and information industry veteran Mark Dorman as president of McGraw-Hill Education International. Dorman will help drive McGraw-Hill Education's mission of becoming a global digital learning company by capitalizing on the… Read More
CARL hails additional budget allocation for research programmes - March 25, 2013
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has shared the government's belief that research and innovation are imperative for Canada's long-term prosperity. It has stated that it is content to see some notable commitments in the 2013 Economic Action Plan. CARL is reportedly pleased to… Read More
University of Toronto Libraries and National Library of China partner for academic cooperation - March 25, 2013
Representatives from the University of Toronto Libraries and the National Library of China will sign an agreement for academic cooperation on March 25. The institutions, each of which holds the largest collection in its respective country, have been working together for several years to exchange… Read More