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… Read More »
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 – Day 2 highlights On the second day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, EDP Open, the Open access arm of EDP Sciences, released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open Access amongst learned society publishers. The survey was answered by 33 Learned societies and results were further supplemented… Read More »
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 begins This year the Frankfurt Book Fair began with a very thought provoking conference organised by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) on October 7. Cathy Wolfe President & CEO, Medical Research, Wolters Kluwer, keynote speech began with an active programme on discussing the ways clinicians, nurses… Read More »
Elsevier adds five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect STM publisher Elsevier has added five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect. The Legacy Collection consists of digitised, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books. The new subject areas are arts and humanities; computer science; economics,… Read More »
The Economics of Electricity Markets Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press http://ieeexplore.ieee.org//xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6898621 Modeling and Analysis of Communicating Systems Publisher: MIT Press Copyright Year: 2014 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org//xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6895438 Cheap and Clean:How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming Publisher: MIT Press Copyright Year: 2014 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org//xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6895439 Play Matters Publisher: MIT Press Copyright Year: 2014 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org//xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6895441 Reality Mining:Using Big… Read More »
Elsevier signs on to CCC’s Republication Service Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has announced that STM publisher Elsevier has signed on to CCC’s Republication Service to simplify the process of negotiating broad republication permissions for its Science & Technology and Health books and journals. With the addition of… Read More »
Facing up to the challenges of education and culture policy – Education at the Frankfurt Book Fair Digitisation and globalisation have made it necessary to rethink our education and cultural policies. Technology companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google are investing more and more in educational activities, while trends such as massive open online courses (MOOCs)… Read More »
UC Davis is honored to be leading the newly established National Center for Sustainable Transportation – a consortium of premier universities committed to advancing an environmentally sustainable transportation system through cutting-edge research, direct policy engagement, and education of our future leaders. The Center’s research will focus on: low-impact travel and sustainable land use; low-carbon infrastructure and efficient system operations; and… Read More »
Thomson Reuters and Russia’s Scientific Electronic Library eLibrary.RU collaborate to showcase nation’s leading research in Web of Science The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Russia’s Scientific Electronic Library eLibrary.ru to make content from the Russian Science Citation Index accessible via the Web of Science. Under the initiative,… Read More »
Wellcome Trust launches charity fund to support open access research publications Six medical research charities recently launched the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to cover open access, article-processing charges. The Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) is a partnership between Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Campaign, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Leukaemia & Lymphoma… Read More »