Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - September 20, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Why the Open Access Financial Model Will Continue to Transmogrify); Katharine O'Moore-Klopf ( Medical Publishing and Full Disclosure of Editing Assistance); Philip Davis (Privatizing Peer Review — The PubCred Proposal); and Jeff Richgels (Is iNewspaper the next iPad… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - September 20, 2010
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Nature Publishing Group joins STEM education initiative - September 17, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it has joined Change the Equation (CTEq), a CEO-led initiative to cultivate widespread literacy in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in the US. NPG is committing a three-year 'Bridge to Science' initiative in support of… Read More
Association for Psychological Science journals used in pilot to evaluate SciVee video PubCasts - September 17, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE and SciVee, a video platform solutions provider to the scientific, technical and medical market, have announced a trial of the SciVee platform for three journals published by SAGE on behalf of the Association for Psychological Science. The three-month trial is designed to evaluate… Read More
York St John University becomes first academic institution in the UK to implement WorldCat Local - September 17, 2010
Library cooperative OCLC has announced that York St John University has become the first academic institution in the UK to implement OCLC's WorldCat Local as its new library end-user discovery interface. The WorldCat Local service delivers single-search access to more than 450 million items from locally… Read More
New learning centre for schools opened at the British Library - September 17, 2010
British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, has opened its revamped and expanded Learning Centre, the Harry M Weinrebe Learning Centre. Funded entirely through private donations, the Learning Centre offers pupils and teachers cutting-edge facilities to support digital literacy skills as well as first-hand… Read More
