(7 November 2014) UNESCO has announced the UNESCO World Library of Science (WLoS), a newly created, free online science education resource for a global community of users. Developed through the joint efforts of UNESCO, Nature Education and Roche, the WLoS was created to give students around the world, especially those in disadvantaged regions, access to…
(10 November 2014, Oxford, UK) With 75 milion DOIs between them, DataCite and CrossRef have agreed to collaborate to: Enhance the interoperability of their respective systems in order to make it easier for publishers, data centres, libraries and third parties to integrate with the scholarly DOI ecosystem; Provide comprehensive support for interlinking between articles and…
(10 November 2014) IFLA’s professional programme consists mainly of Sections. Each Section is governed by a democratically elected Standing Committee consisting of professionals with expertise and an interest in the field of the Section. Serving on a Standing Committee provides opportunities for professional development, networking with colleagues from many different countries and helping to advance…
(6 November 2014) Duties include original and complex copy cataloging for library resources in Chinese (Mandarin) and other languages as necessary using RDA, LC-PCC PS, PCC standard record guidelines, LC classification and subject headings, and MARC21 formats. The CEAL website has the job description.
(6 November 2014) Powerpoints and audio for Seeding the cloud: library collaboration in the digital age held 31 October 2014 in Canberra and hosted by Libraries Australia, can be enjoyed via the NLA website.
(6 November 2014, Cambridge, UK & Redwood City, CA, USA) Lens, an open-source tool introduced by eLife to make reading articles online easier, is being piloted in journals from six publishers on the HighWire platform. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Plant Cell, Journal of Lipid Research, and mBio® are among the journals introducing…
(6 November 2014, Danvers, Mass.) Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global rights licensing technology and content solutions organization, announced today it has acquired Infotrieve, Inc., a leader in enterprise SaaS software and business services for scientific, technical and medical (STM) published content. The acquisition enables CCC to deliver new value to its corporate customers…
(4 November 2014, Sydney) A new scientific journal focusing on the rapidly developing areas of quantum research that promise to revolutionise the processing and transmission of information has been launched today at UNSW by the Federal Minister for Education Christopher Pyne. npj Quantum Information is an international open-access journal and the first Nature Partner Journal…
(30 September 2014, Boston, MA) To further engage and inspire English Language Learners, National Geographic Learning (NGL), part of global education company Cengage Learning, today announced a partnership with TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. Through the agreement, NGL will integrate TED’s expansive library of…
(6 November 2014) National Higher Education Research Institute (NaHERI), Universiti Sains Malaysia has published a newsletter to elaborate the Open Access Initiative. Visit the Open Access Malaysia website and chose IPPTN Higher Education Newsletter Vol. 4.
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