McGraw-Hill Education announces participation at 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show - January 8, 2014
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced its participation at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where company executives will discuss how digital innovation continues to improve the education industry and provide an update on the state of adaptive learning technology in today's classrooms.… Read More
Expanded SPIE Photonics West 2014 industry track offers more for technology commercialization entrepreneurs, startups, investors, executives - January 3, 2014
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that panel discussions on what startups need for success, promising technology commercialisation prospects, and insights on funding biophotonics ventures are among new elements of an expanded industry track at SPIE Photonics West 2014. Already the largest… Read More
ALA TechSource announces new workshop, Getting Started with Open Access - December 30, 2013
ALA TechSource has announced a new workshop, Getting Started with Open Access, with Emily Puckett Rodgers and Meredith Kahn. This workshop will last 90 minutes and is scheduled for January 15, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. EST. Journals continue their transition to becoming increasingly digital publications,… Read More
ARL and Ithaka S+R’s free web seminar to bring together leaders of seven of the eight cases profiled in the Searching for Sustainability report - December 27, 2013
Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn quickly is that digitization is the easy part. As grant funding rarely covers ongoing operations, the larger challenge is to develop a successful strategy to make sure the… Read More
Proposal submission deadline approaching for Library Assessment Conference 2014 - December 23, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the conference planning committee are accepting proposals through January 17, 2014, for the Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Seattle, Washington, August 4–6, 2014. The goal of… Read More
BISG to co-locate 2014 Making Information Pay Conference with 2014 IDPF Digital Book Conference at BookExpo America - December 19, 2013
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has announced the co-location of Making Information Pay 2014 with the International Digital Publishing Forum's (IDPF) annual Digital Book conference. The Making Information Pay conference will take place in the afternoon of May 29 as part of the expanded two-day… Read More
Thomson Reuters pilots Web of Science Certification program at Russia’s Saint Petersburg State University Scientific Library - December 17, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters recently piloted the first-ever Web of Science Certification program at Russia's Saint Petersburg State University Scientific Library. Working in close collaboration, Thomson Reuters trained 15 members of the library's staff to become experts in the company's Web… Read More
The London Book Fair to launch London Book and Screen Week 2014, announces move to Olympia in 2015 - December 13, 2013
Events organiser Reed Exhibitions has announced that The London Book Fair 2014 will be the last to take place in its current location, Earls Court. Following the substantial coverage in the media regarding The Earls Court Opportunity Area, the future of Earls… Read More
STM seminars focus on Data and Content Enrichment - December 10, 2013
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) hosted two interesting and thought provoking seminars, STM – Innovations and STM – E-Production, in London last week. On December 4, 2013, the STM – Innovations seminar kicked off with an opening Keynote from Gerry… Read More
Techstreet Standards Publishers Innovation Forum addresses how innovation can drive success for standards organisations - December 3, 2013
Leaders from the standards publishing industry gathered on November 14 in Alexandria, Virginia, for the bi-annual Standards Publishers Innovation Forum (SPIF) presented by Techstreet, part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and a provider of industry codes and standards. The fall forum,… Read More
