Optical Society names Elizabeth Nolan as Chief Publishing Officer - July 7, 2010
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Elizabeth Nolan has been promoted to chief publishing officer. She most recently served as the senior deputy director of publishing sales and marketing at OSA. Nolan succeeds Dr. John S. Childs, publisher/senior director, who retired from OSA on July… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - July 7, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
Reading on paper faster than on reading devices, says Nielsen Norman study - July 6, 2010
Product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group, US, recently conducted a study, according to which it takes longer to read a book on an iPad or Kindle than on the printed page. For the study, Dr. Jakob Nielsen compared the reading times of 24 users on the… Read More
CHLA and CIHR to develop first Canadian Virtual Health Library - July 6, 2010
The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has announced that the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are moving forward with the development of the Canadian Virtual Health Library (CVHL) - a first for… Read More
DGI and Elsevier announce Best Paper Award - July 6, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) will honour Young Information Professionals (YIPs) with the 'Semantic Web & Linked Data - Elements of Future Information infrastructures' Best Paper Award. The award will be presented at… Read More
Google’s Chinese licence renewal remains uncertain - July 6, 2010
After a wait of five days, Internet search services firm Google, Inc., US, continued to be kept uninformed on whether or not its operating licence in China would be renewed, according to media reports. The licence, issued by the Chinese government, is necessary for Google to… Read More
