Blackboard enhances CourseSites with expanded language support and new features - September 27, 2011
Enterprise technology and learning solutions provider Blackboard, Inc., US, has announced that CourseSites, the company's free, fully hosted and supported online course system, has been updated to include a range of new features and support for five additional languages. Already used in more than 100 countries,… Read More
Royal Swets & Zeitlinger celebrates 110th anniversary - September 27, 2011
Information services company Royal Swets & Zeitlinger, Netherlands, is celebrating its 110th anniversary. Adriaan Swets and Heinrich Zeitlinger opened the doors to their business, a small bookshop in Amsterdam specialising in new and antiquarian scientific books, on September 26, 1901. Although Heinrich Zeitlinger left the… Read More
Semantico and Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana partner on major online project - September 27, 2011
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd, UK, has announced that it has been chosen by Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, a leading publisher in Catalan, as the digital development partner in a major project to publish their extensive range of encyclopaedic, academic and literary works online. The… Read More
NLM to hold second Journal Article Tag Suite Conference in September 2011 - September 26, 2011
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that it will be holding its second Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 26-27, 2011. The conference is intended for users of NLM's Journal Article… Read More
NISO publishes Summer 2011 issue of the Information Standards Quarterly - September 26, 2011
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of the Summer 2011 issue of the Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) publication with a special issue theme of Organization and People Identifiers. ISQ Guest Content Editor, Helen Henderson, Managing Director at Information Power Ltd. has assembled… Read More
University of Michigan to rework orphan works identification as project gets suspended - September 26, 2011
The University of Michigan has suspended its orphan works digitisation project in response to the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against it and four other universities, including Cornell. According to Paul Courant, Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan, the system for identifying orphan works is… Read More
