Elsevier wins four awards and six honorable mentions at the 2009 PROSE Awards - February 16, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has won four major awards and six honorable mentions from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Elsevier’s BrainNavigator, an online, interactive, 3D software tool developed in collaboration with the Allen… Read More
AFS signs MoA with US Automotive Materials Partnership to include USAMP Data in CADS - February 16, 2010
The American Foundry Society (AFS) has signed a memorandum of agreement with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC (USAMP). Under the agreement, the data contained in USAMP's Automotive Lightweight Materials database will be made available to AFS for inclusion in the AFS online database Casting… Read More
Three libraries bag in-kind grants from LibQUAL+ for survey participation - February 16, 2010
LibQUAL+ has announced that three libraries have been selected to receive in-kind grants to facilitate their participation in the 2010 LibQUAL+ survey. LibQUAL+ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand and act upon users’ opinions of service quality. These services are… Read More
Royal Holloway formally approves open access mandate for all research - February 16, 2010
Bedford Library Royal Holloway, University of London, has become the latest university in the UK to give formal approval to an open access publication policy requiring its researchers to deposit copies of their research in the Royal Holloway Research Online (RHRO) repository from September 1, 2010.… Read More
Dear Subscriber - February 16, 2010
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Open Book Alliance flays amended Google Books settlement - February 15, 2010
The Open Book Alliance (OBA) has issued a statement in response to Google's request for an amended Google Books Settlement approval. The OBA and other objectors - including the US Department of Justice, authors, publishers, academics, libraries and privacy advocates from around the world - have… Read More
