EBSCO offers scholarships for librarians to attend 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting - December 15, 2011
Information services provider EBSCO, US, in co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA) has awarded five librarians $1,500 scholarships to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, from January 20–24, 2012. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write… Read More
NISO-Open Archives Initiative project receives Sloan grant - December 15, 2011
The US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant is for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronisation of web resources. Increasingly,… Read More
British Library welcomes IPO consultation on the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property - December 15, 2011
The British Library, the national library of the UK, has welcomed the consultation (professional section) issued by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which calls for evidence to inform the impact assessment of the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property. The British Library's submission to the Hargreaves… Read More
Maney Publishing set to publish the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health - December 15, 2011
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has acquired the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health from Hamilton Hardy Publishing. Maney will begin publishing this new title from 2012. The journal will continue with existing editor David S Egilman of Brown University, USA. The International Journal… Read More
American Society for Microbiology in deal with Publishing Technology to create new digital platform - December 15, 2011
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) have announced a partnership to create a next-generation digital platform to host all of the organisation's published authoritative content online. The new custom-built site will be developed on Publishing Technology's… Read More
Special issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice focuses on quality improvement in public health - December 14, 2011
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a Wolters Kluwer Health business, has announced that the January/February 2012 edition of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) is a special issue entirely focused on the critical topic of quality improvement in public health. The… Read More
