(1 October 2015, Burlingame, CA and London, UK) Momentum toward irreversible changes for the $766.5 billion information industry has reached a tipping point, and businesses that don’t adapt now are at risk, according to Outsell, Inc., The research and advisory firm today released its 2016 Information Industry Outlook Report, “Tipping Point,” to help companies understand…
(5 October 2015, Alexandria, VA) Alexander Street, a leading provider of digital content for libraries, announced the release of its newest collection to support the study of counseling and therapy, Counseling and Therapy Online: Current Practices. Counseling and Therapy Online: Current Practices is a resource for supporting both undergraduate and graduate-level counseling curriculum. Together with…
(2 October 2015) The days of toting heavy textbooks are gone for some Indiana University students, who have opted into the school’s digital learning program. Started in 2012, the IU program has saved students about $8 million by making electronic textbooks available. Students are able to access their texts, which run about $35, via the…
(2 October 2015) On 9 June 2015 the Philippine Librarians Association (PLAI) and the Thailand Library Association (TLA) organized a convening prior to the CONSAL conference in Bangkok. The convening on ASEAN Integration: Cross Border Mobility of Librarians aimed to create a platform for common understanding of ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Economic…
(1 October 2015) New light is shed on the volume and market characteristics of so-called ‘predatory’ scholarly journal publishing in a study conducted by researchers from Hanken School of Economics and published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. The study shows the number of articles published in journals defined as such that have increased…
(1 October 2015) A new cross-industry campaign launches today – Think. Check. Submit. The campaign will provide information for researchers, through an online hub at http://thinkchecksubmit.org/, about the criteria they should look for when selecting where to publish their research. The volume of research output continues to grow, and recent years have seen an increase…
(1 October 2015) The Library seeks a subject specialist to build library collections and provide library services in the interdisciplinary field of Chinese Studies. Reporting to the Director of the East Asian Library, this Librarian, as core member of a team of East Asian Library colleagues, works closely with faculty, students, staff and visiting scholars…
(1 October 2015) The dates are set for the Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference. The fifth annual global conversation about the future of libraries is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 from 7am – 8pm US Pacific / 10am – 11pm US Eastern (International Time Zone Converter). The conference will be held entirely online and is free…
(30 September 2015, Bhubaneswar) Manmohan Digital Library, the first digital library in the state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) with over 1.3 lakh (130,000) digitized pages of Odia literature, will be opened to the public in the Old Town here on Tuesday. The library is being set up by voluntary organization Srujanika, which works on digitization…
(1 October 2015, Frankfurt) With the slogan “17,000 Islands of Imagination”, Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world, is offering glimpses into its rich cultural and literary landscape – for the first time in the German-speaking world. “In its role as guest of honour at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair, Indonesia has the opportunity…
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