arXiv.org, e-print repository to over 1 million papers in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics and hosted at Cornell University is in the middle of a drive to fund new initiatives and improvements. The UC Davis library is a member institution to arXiv and both a heavy user of and contributor… Read More »
2015 ALPSP Conference – An Update The 2nd day of the ALPSP conference started with Keynote from Kuansan Wang, Director of the Internet service Research Centre, Microsoft Research. This Keynote considered the impact for the publishing and consumption of content, drawing on observations derived from a web scale data set, newly released to the public.… Read More »
2015 ALPSP Conference begins The ALPSP 2015 conference began with a compelling and discussion provoking keynote by Anurag Acharya, Co-creator of Google Scholar. His keynote titled “What happens when your library is worldwide and all articles are easy to find?” covered the changes in scholarly communication and how user behaviour has evolved in response to… Read More »
Wolters Kluwer and Laerdal Medical expand vSim for Nursing Wolters Kluwer and Laerdal Medical have expanded vSim for NursingTM with 52 additional curriculum-driven patient scenarios to be used with Fundamentals, Pharmacology, Gerontology, Maternity, and Pediatric curriculum. With vSim for Nursing, nursing students experience realistic patient encounters that are essential to their success in clinical practice.… Read More »
Spotlight on international business at THE MARKETS – Global Publishing Summit China, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey: these and three other relevant book and media markets are the focus of THE MARKETS – Global Publishing Summit, the new conference to kick off the Frankfurt Book Fair (14-18 October 2015). As part of the one-day conference, to be… Read More »
Elsevier announces enhancements to Pure Experts Portal STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new version of the Pure Experts Portal, its leading research information management system, and part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio of integrated tools and services. The Pure Experts Portal is an easy-to-use analytical web-based tool that enables universities,… Read More »
Scope to participate in ALPSP International Conference Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, is pleased to announce its participation in the forthcoming ALPSP International Conference, to be held at The Park Inn by Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre London Heathrow, from September 9 – 11,… Read More »
New release of BizInt Smart Charts for Patents integrates with new STN to enable more efficient, insightful reporting and analysis of search results Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and BizInt Solutions, Inc. have announced a collaboration empowering search professionals using new STN to seamlessly transition from precision searching to customised reporting and analysis for Intellectual Property… Read More »
http://tinyurl.com/nd8w6bk UC Davis Library grant funded project of Cal Ag Experiment Station publications hosted on the Internet Archive got a little help spreading the word today: @UCDavisRockwell UC Davis puts 1800 titles from the Calif Ag Experiment Station online. http://t.co/FhAGXzNdWs @cboettig @lesliemb pic.twitter.com/31yJJtc3dG — Susanne Rockwell (@UCDavisRockwell) September 1, 2015 retweeted by @UCDavis_Egghead and @may_gun… Read More »
NISO unveils new Primer Series with the publication of Primer on Research Data Management The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has launched a new Primer Series on information management technology issues with the publication of the first primer on the topic of Research Data Management. Two more primers on the topics of Understanding Metadata and… Read More »