Elsevier celebrates International Year of Light 2015, collaborates in the production of documentary film – Einstein’s Light |
STM publisher Elsevier has announced its collaboration in the film production of Einstein’s Light which was first presented at the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of Light 2015 (IYL2015) held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Einstein’s Light explores how scientific imagination and innovation advance knowledge frontiers featuring Dr. Albert Einstein and Dutch Nobel Laureate Dr. Hendrik Lorentz as models. More Search for more news in this Category |
Wiley-VCH and the Korean Chemical Society partner to jointly publish the Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society |
Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and the Korean Chemical Society have signed an agreement to closely cooperate and jointly publish the Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. The journal will be available online from volume 2015 in Wiley Online Library, one of the most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, visited by 15 million users a month. More Search for more news in this Category |
Dow partners with the American Chemical Society to improve chemistry teaching all over North America |
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) are partnering to invigorate chemistry education and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the nation’s schools. Dow and AACT will work together to convene a series of teacher summits and create more than 750 lesson plans, multimedia resources, demonstrations and other high-quality chemistry teaching materials for use in K–12 classrooms. More Search for more news in this Category |
OA journal Palgrave Communications publishes first papers |
Palgrave Communications, the new high quality open access (OA) online-only, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal has published its first articles. The papers, which are all free to access, span a wide range of disciplines including international studies, political science, theatre and performance studies, and operational research. More Search for more news in this Category |
Thieme selects TEMIS’s Luxid Webstudio for thesaurus management |
Semantic Content Enrichment solutions provider TEMIS has announced that scientific and medical publisher Thieme has chosen TEMIS’s Luxid Webstudio to help its teams manage their thesauri and terminologies. Luxid Webstudio will help different departments of the group to manage, expand and customise the complex vocabularies they use to semantically enrich their content. More Search for more news in this Category |
Edmodo and Cambridge University Press announce strategic partnership |
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and Edmodo, an e-learning platform for primary and secondary teachers and pupils, have announced a strategic partnership to encourage effective instruction and deeper student learning. With this partnership, both parties seek to bring premier educational content and technology to schools in the United Kingdom. More Search for more news in this Category |
University of Haifa opts for Ex Libris Alma |
Library technology solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Haifa’s Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library is the first early adopter in Israel of the Alma® library management solution. Haifa University will be replacing the Aleph® integrated library system. Alma will be integrated with the University Library’s Primo® discovery and delivery solution – for which the library developed a Hebrew interface in cooperation with Ex Libris. More Search for more news in this Category |
New grants awarded to OCLC to support joint strategy, research and prototypes initiated by the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums |
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to advance and sustain professional development and continuing education for information workers across the United States. The grants will support continued work of the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries, and Museums to produce strategies for effective staff learning programs. More Search for more news in this Category |
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