SPARC, ACRL to hold discussion on open educational resources - December 17, 2008
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have announced that a joint forum on open educational resources (OER) will be held next month. The SPARC-ACRL forum will be held during the 2009… Read More
Winners of Semantic Web Challenge announced - December 10, 2008
The winners have been announced for the Semantic Web Challenge which took place at the International Semantic Web Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, from October 26-30, 2008. Determined by a jury consisting of leading experts from both academia and industry, the three highest ranked applications in each… Read More
Ovid Universal Search and Nursing@Ovid at Online Information event - December 4, 2008
Information research solutions provider Ovid Technologies, US, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is showcasing its new premium cross-platform search solution, Ovid Universal Search, and its latest nursing & allied health portal, Nursing@Ovid, at the ongoing 2008 Online Information conference. Conference attendees can also learn about new… Read More
ALPSP to hold seminar on adding value to primary content - December 2, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, is conducting a one day seminar titled Medical Journals: Adding Value to Primary Content. The event, scheduled for January 15, 2009, in London, will be useful for journal… Read More
‘School Library Journal’ conducts summit examining future of content - December 1, 2008
The School Library Journal recently conducted its fourth annual leadership summit to explore where content is headed and how librarians can take advantage of its evolution to fully engage students and teachers. The summit was attended by librarians, technology leaders, publishers, authors and editors. Keynote speaker… Read More
Academic publishers examine future of books at Yale University Press symposium - November 27, 2008
As part of its ongoing centenary celebration, Yale University Press recently hosted a one-day symposium entitled 'Why Books Still Matter'. The conference on scholarly publishing was sponsored by Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Yale University Press. In his keynote… Read More
BioMed unveils accredited CME webcast in ‘Arthritis Research & Therapy’ - November 18, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has published its first Continuing Medical Education (CME) webcast, in the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy. The webcast, titled Clinical Conundrum: Use of COX-2 Inhibitors, nsNSAIDs and ASA in Patients with Cardiovascular Risk, provides education to meet the needs of… Read More
Papers of EPS Conference on Plasma Physics available for free online - November 17, 2008
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, published by IOP publishing, UK, has announced that papers contributed by invited speakers at the 35th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics are now available online. All of these papers will be free to read online in a special issue… Read More
Vienna hosts ‘Research Meets Practice’ Information Retrieval Symposium 2008 - November 11, 2008
The annual Information Retrieval Facility Symposium (IRFS 2008) 'Research meets Practice' was recently conducted in Vienna, Austria. The IRFS seeks to promote, facilitate and enable Information Retrieval (IR) research in close cooperation with experts from the Intellectual Property (IP) community and to offer an environment for… Read More
ALPSP announces new workshop for acquiring and selling publishing content - November 6, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, is conducting a workshop for acquiring and selling publishing content. The workshop is designed for senior editorial/publishing managers, directors and managing directors involved in the process of buying… Read More
