Skillset funded project to update UK’s National Occupational Standards for journals - December 23, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, is working with the Publishing Training Centre on a scoping project being funded by Skillset. The project will consider whether the Publishing National Occupational Standards (NOS) for the… Read More
Resources and presentations from recent SPARC repositories meeting now online - December 23, 2008
Thought leaders and practitioners from higher education and beyond called on participants at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore on November 17-18 to continue their digital repository development efforts and offered strategies for building on experience gained to date. In the opening keynote, John Wilbanks,… Read More
TechTarget acquires The Brian Madden Company - December 23, 2008
Information technology media company TechTarget, Inc., US, has announced the acquisition of The Brian Madden Company, an independent website and conference, to address the needs of IT decision makers on the topics of desktop virtualisation, terminal services, and application virtualisation. As an addition to TechTarget's portfolio… Read More
Libraries in Europe and Africa acquire VTLS Archival Management System - December 23, 2008
Library automation company Visionary Technology in Library Solutions, US, has announced that the Slovak National Library in Bratislava and Makerere University in Uganda have acquired the Archives Management System (AMS). AMS, developed in partnership with the National Library of Wales, follows the ISAD (International Standard Archive… Read More
Nielsen Book supports E4Libraries initiative - December 23, 2008
Nielsen Book, part of global information and media company Nielsen Company, UK, has responded to the recent E4Libraries BIC Category Headings announcement by immediately applying the initiative to all the titles in its database - over 8 million records in total. Using Nielsen Book's services, libraries… Read More
American Chemical Society’s office of public affairs wins three national awards - December 23, 2008
The world's largest scientific society American Chemical Society (ACS), US, has announced that its office of public affairs has won three prestigious national awards in a competition sponsored by Association TRENDS, a national newspaper for associations. ACS won a gold medal in the podcast category for… Read More
