TechTarget releases new report mapping content and information source needs of IT buyers - November 23, 2009
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc., US, has announced the release of a new report mapping content and information source needs of IT buyers to their online research process. The TechTarget Media Consumption Benchmark Report 2: Closing the Gap between IT Buyers and IT Marketers is available… Read More
Latest edition of blogspeak now online - November 23, 2009
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (How Many Books Dance on the Head of an e-Pin?); Gideon Burton (Western Civilization and the Digital World); Pam Harley (Usefulness Trumps Fun for Search Autosuggest); and David Crotty (How Meaningful Are User Ratings? (This Article = 4.5… Read More
American Geographical Society and Wiley-Blackwell announce Co-publishing deal - November 20, 2009
The American Geographical Society (AGS) has announced a partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, after two years of negotiations and discussions between the society and publisher. Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell and the AGS will co-publish the… Read More
Elsevier publishes freely available Special Issue to mark 20th anniversary of the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child - November 20, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the publication of a Special Issue of Child Abuse and Neglect The International Journal 1989-2009 on the 20th Anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Special Issue aims to celebrate the 20th anniversary of… Read More
TechXtra launches new service, TechJournalContents - November 20, 2009
Technology search service provider TechXtra, UK, has launched a new service, TechJournalContents. The service allows users to search across the current issues of more than 4,500 scholarly technology journals from multiple publishers, in order to find the latest research articles. TechJournalContents is expected to be of… Read More
DataONE global data access network for environmental research launched - November 20, 2009
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and partners have launched DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network projected to make vast amounts of information related to environmental research readily available. The network, which has received a $20 million grant through the… Read More
