SPIE and the Eindhoven University of Technology announces three-year “read and publish” agreement - September 24, 2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. The new agreement is effective September 1, 2020. It incorporates read access to all SPIE journals and proceedings in… Read More
Ex Libris achieves certification for ISO 27701:2019 - September 24, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the company has achieved certification for ISO 27701:2019, an international standard published by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), the only organisation in the library software industry to do so. ISO 27701:2019 provides a… Read More
Macmillan Learning promotes Susan Winslow to President - September 24, 2020
Macmillan Learning, part of the family-owned Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, has announced the promotion of Susan Winslow to President of Macmillan Learning, effective immediately. The promotion follows the departure of outgoing Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who will step down on January 1, 2021. Winslow has been… Read More
Knowledge E and the International Federation of Dental Educators and Associations collaborate to improve teaching excellence in dental education - September 24, 2020
Knowledge E and the International Federation of Dental Educators and Associations (IFDEA) have signed an agreement to further raise the importance of teaching excellence in dental education. Their first pilot programme will contribute to supporting Egypt in its ambition to move towards a competency-based integrated curriculum.… Read More
Landmark analysis by Elsevier maps research data as UN Sustainable Development Goals reach fifth anniversary - September 23, 2020
Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, has published a landmark report on The Power of Research to Advance the SDGs to strengthen the understanding of the global SDG-efforts. In 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious target to… Read More
Choice’s new white paper explores changes ebooks have brought to collection development in academic libraries - September 23, 2020
Choice has announced the publication of the seventh in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. The paper, ‘Ebook Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Examining Preference, Management and Purchasing Patterns,’… Read More