Thomson Reuters launches Academic Reputation Survey for 2012 - March 14, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the launch of its 2012 Academic Reputation Survey, for a current evaluation of higher education institutions globally. This is the third consecutive year the reputation survey has been conducted. The survey, which is… Read More
iThenticate report examines reasons for dramatic rise in plagiarism - March 14, 2012
Turnitin, the US-based creator of iThenticate and other web-based plagiarism prevention tools, has announced the release of a new report titled 'True Costs of Research Misconduct.' The report explores the reasons for the dramatic rise in research misconduct over the past decade and defines four distinct… Read More
Global professional publishing industry to grow 3% in 2012, says Simba report - March 9, 2012
Publishing forecast firm Simba Information, US, has released a report titled Global Professional Publishing 2010-2011. According to the report, the global market for professional publishing products and services, led by the legal, science/technical and medical (STM) segments, will grow 3 percent through 2012, reaching $41.4 billion.… Read More
Android to pose no major challenge to Apple dominance in tablets, says Forrester report - March 7, 2012
Independent research company Forrester Research, US, has published a new report that says more than 112 million Americans - one-third of the US adult population - will own a tablet by 2016. With Apple reportedly set to announce its next-generation iPad, the Forrester report shows no… Read More
Gartner predicts greater employee use of social media sites for corporate IAM - March 6, 2012
Technology research firm Gartner, Inc., US, has announced that fewer than 30 percent of large organisations will block employee access to social media sites by 2014, compared with 50 percent in 2010. The number of organisations blocking access to all social media is dropping by around… Read More
E-book consumers drive sales via apps and online retailers, says BISG Study - March 1, 2012
E-book consumers are increasing their purchase of books - both print and e-book formats - online and especially through in-app purchasing, and decreasing their use of brick-and-mortar stores, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The first instalment in… Read More
BISG survey examines college student perceptions on educational content - February 23, 2012
The first instalment in Volume Two of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s ongoing Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education survey shows that students are rebelling against the rising costs of textbooks in a variety of ways. Some students are settling for older editions of… Read More
JISC survey studies progress of electronic doctoral theses - February 21, 2012
Doctoral theses can attract significant attention when made openly accessible in electronic form, according to the respondents of a sector-wide survey of information professionals. The JISC-funded survey seeks to give a clearer picture of progress toward electronic thesis deposit in the UK, and how universities are… Read More
ebrary’s 2011 Global Student E-book Survey publicly available online - February 21, 2012
E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, a ProQuest business, has announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/surveys along with the full report. According to the report while 41… Read More
UK e-books sales rising but sales values falling, says Books & Consumers survey - February 15, 2012
E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume, according to the latest Books & Consumers survey. With the lower price points of e-books versus their print counterparts, the value of book sales is shrinking, the report further says. The survey is an… Read More
