Sheridan launches Print-to-Mobile QR codes - December 13, 2010
Printing and publishing services provider The Sheridan Group, US, has announced that its magazine, journal, catalogue, and book companies now offer Quick Response (QR) Code technology to clients interested in enhancing their print publications with multimedia options. QR codes are smart device readable two dimensional… Read More
NISO to make Information Standards Quarterly OA in 2011 - December 13, 2010
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) publication will be moving to open access (OA) in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public.… Read More
Connecticut Attorney General demands access to Google’s Street View data - December 13, 2010
Attorney General from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, has demanded that Google provide access to data that its Street View cars improperly collected from unsecured Connecticut personal and business wireless computer networks. Blumenthal issued the demand, in cooperation with the Department of Consumer Protection… Read More
TRAIL search interface now available - December 13, 2010
The Center for Research Libraries has announced that a new search interface for the collections of the Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) is now available. Users can now search http://www.technicalreports.org to access over 20,000 federal technical reports (approximately 2 million… Read More
ASME announces new appointments for fiscal year 2012 - December 13, 2010
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has named Victoria A. Rockwell of Air Liquide USA, LLC, as president-elect for a one-year term beginning in June 2011. Rockwell will begin her tenure along with three new appointees to the ASME Board of Governors and six new… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 13, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Kroll (Post-publication peer review in public: poison or progress?); Ben Brooks (The Publishing Industry: Just Waiting to Be Rescued); Phil Davis (Should Open Access Journals Charge Submission Fees?); Richard MacManus (How Online Reading Habits Have Changed Over 2010); and… Read More
