Gartner predicts greater employee use of social media sites for corporate IAM - March 6, 2012
Technology research firm Gartner, Inc., US, has announced that fewer than 30 percent of large organisations will block employee access to social media sites by 2014, compared with 50 percent in 2010. The number of organisations blocking access to all social media is dropping by around… Read More
InTech publications accepted for inclusion in Inspec and Scopus - March 6, 2012
STM publisher InTech, Croatia, has announced the inclusion of 620 books in the Inspec database and the International Journal of Engineering Business Management entering the Scopus database. In 2011 alone, the number of downloaded book chapters and articles outperformed the number of any year between… Read More
‘GigaScience’ calls for papers for special series on genomic standards - March 6, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that to tie in with this week's Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Shenzhen, its journal GigaScience is launching a call for submissions to a thematic series of discussion and research from the conference and wider community highlighting… Read More
MarkLogic executive to address Carahsoft Government Big Data Forum in Washington D.C. - March 6, 2012
Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced that its Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, Chris Biow, will be a panelist at the 2nd annual Carahsoft Government Big Data Forum on March 6 in Washington D.C. Biow will describe MarkLogic capabilities to leverage the value… Read More
US anti-open access bill stymied as Elsevier backs out - March 5, 2012
The proposed Research Works Act in the US has been dropped in a move that is seen to signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. The legislation, had it been passed, would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research funded with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available. The implosion… Read More
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation releases App for the iPad - March 5, 2012
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R) has released the new AJPM&R for the iPad app. The journal is the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP). The… Read More
