 Day 3: Frankfurt Book Fair highlights |
| The fifth edition of StoryDrive will celebrate the heroes in and behind the story. Speakers include Cyber-Philosopher Alexander Bard, Publisher Michael Bhaskar, Best-Selling Author Reif Larsen, script writer Stefano Bises and many more. Perspectives in Education: “Across Boundaries – an Education Melting Pot”: CEOs of various international educational publishing houses discussed the changes in the education business and how new features are developing and getting mixed up with the existing ones. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
 Nature Publishing Group and the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University launch new OA journal – npj Microgravity |
| Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group and the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have announced the launch of npj Microgravity, a new open access journal. The journal is specifically dedicated to publishing research that enables space exploration and research that is enabled by spaceflight. It will also publish research utilizing ground-based models of spaceflight. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
 EBSCO introduces Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Internacional |
| EBSCO Information Services has announced that a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments in both Spanish and English is now available. Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Internacional contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within diverse areas. Designed to serve the increasing needs of diverse populations, PPE provides a ready reference for practitioners, researchers, teachers, librarians, and all professionals who work directly with Spanish-speaking clients or train those who do. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
| Royal Society Open Science launches on HighWire |
| The Royal Society has announced the launch of Royal Society Open Science, a new open access journal publishing high quality original research on the basis of objective peer review. The journal will publish original research articles that are scientifically sound, leaving judgement of importance and impact to the reader. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
| SCELC selects ProQuest Intota Assessment for use in Shared Print project to make evidence-based retention decisions |
| The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) has initiated a collection analysis project to gain insight on collection overlap and usage as a basis for establishing a sustainable shared collections program among its members. SCELC chose ProQuest Intota Assessment for comprehensive analysis of more than 4.5 million monographs across nine member libraries participating in the pilot project. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
| Plymouth University collaborates with Vital Source Technologies to launch largest e-textbook programme in the UK |
| Plymouth University has announced a collaboration with Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, to provide textbooks for their institution-wide digital initiative, which is the largest e-textbook programme ever undertaken in the UK. Plymouth University’s e-textbook programme, launched this month, has already provided more than 30,000 e-textbooks to the University’s students. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
| National Library of the Netherlands in deal with OCLC to add four key collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat |
| The National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has entered into an agreement with OCLC to add four important collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat for discovery of these valuable resources worldwide. The extensive and historically significant data comprise large numbers of digitised books, journals, newspapers and parliamentary papers, aggregated from libraries across the Netherlands. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
| NIH invests about $32 million to increase utility of biomedical research data |
| The National Institutes of Health recently announced grants to develop new strategies to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets, often referred to as Big Data. These NIH multi-institute awards constitute an initial investment of nearly $32 million in fiscal year 2014 by NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, which is projected to have a total investment of nearly $656 million through 2020, pending available funds. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
