ETD Project to allow doctoral candidates to submit work via Western’s digital library repository - August 2, 2010
Doctoral candidates at the University of Western Ontario have a new option for submitting theses and dissertations for examination that will make their research available to scholars worldwide. Beginning August 1, 2010, the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Project allows Western's PhD candidates to submit their… Read More
SAGE launches exclusive study skills titles with Amazon - August 2, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that two new SAGE study skills titles will be available for purchase exclusively from Amazon's print-on-demand facility in the UK from August 6, 2010. The publications, Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students and University Life: The Essential Guide for Students,… Read More
AAAS recognises MIT OpenCourseWare with Science Prize for Online Resources in Education - August 2, 2010
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has been named as a recipient of the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). MIT OpenCourseWare is Massachusetts Institute of Technology's innovative effort to share… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell and the British Psychological Society announce publishing partnership - August 2, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it has expanded its publishing partnership with the British Psychological Society (BPS) to include the Society's journals in addition to their partnership on the BPS' prestigious book publishing programme. Under… Read More
Google cleared of privacy breach in the UK - August 2, 2010
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has cleared internet search services provider Google Inc. of collecting 'meaningful personal details' during the company's Street View wireless data breach, earlier this year. The ICO recently visited Google's premises to assess samples of the 'pay-load' data it inadvertently collected.… Read More
New interactive toolkit for healthcare professionals launched - August 2, 2010
The Medicines Management, Keele University, has developed a new online resource designed to assist healthcare professionals in the local development of shared care agreements. The Effective Shared Care Agreement Toolkit seeks to outline clinical and patient management responsibilities and suggest how they can be shared between… Read More
