(26 December 2013, Washington) CTIA -The Wireless Association® unveiled KnowMyApp.org to inform consumers how much data their favorite apps use. While there are tools that allow consumers to learn about app data usage after the fact, KnowMyApp.org, for the first time, gives users the ability to estimate an app’s data usage before it’s downloaded. To…
(25 December 2013) And then there was Wang Zhen. When the emcee called him up to the stage, the audience erupted in applause. I’d never heard of him, which clearly signified my remove from the China MOOC loop; Wang Zhen had already achieved local renown as a MOOC superstar, having earned 40 credentials (over 30…
(21 December 2013) On 29 August, a press conference for the launch of the National Animation Public Material Library was held in Tianjin Binghai International Convention Center. The National Animation Public Material Library is a multifunctional national material resource sharing platform, hosted by the Inter-Ministerial Joint Office for the Growth of the Animation Industry and…
11 December 2013) On 6 September , a Reading Promotion Activity themed “A Million People Studying through the Internet” was launched in Guizhou Library which was jointly hosted by Guizhou Provincial Leading Group for the Promotion of Scientific Knowledge among the Public and the National Library of China (NLC), and undertaken by Guizhou Library. Zunyi…
(20 December 2013) The China and Inner Asia Council of the AAS (CIAC) invites applications for awards of up to USD2,000. Dissertation-level graduate students and scholars with special interests in China or Inner Asia are invited to submit proposals. Applicants must be current Association for Asian Studies (AAS) members, but there are no citizenship requirements.…
(20 December 2013) Online access is now available to the descriptive Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library (Bod-Inc). The printed catalogue was published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. This online resource is accessible at: http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. The project to produce the printed catalogue of 15th-century books in the Bodleian Libraries…
LIBER, the Association of European Libraries, has set out its position on European copyright reform through a statement which prioritises three high-level principles. The principles are: Copyright should foster, not hinder, innovation and competitiveness. Access to and use of publicly funded research should not be unduly restricted by copyright. Preservation of, and access to, cultural…
(18 December 2013, London) University College London (UCL) and Elsevier will establish the UCL Big Data Institute as part of a new collaboration to explore innovative ways to better serve needs of researchers through the exploration of new technologies and analytics as applied to scholarly content and data. Elsevier believes linking analytics and scientific content…
(18 December 2013) If you missed this webinar ACS has thoughfully uploaded it. Use this link (http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=719199&s=1&k=C0C33B8E28BEDF036E2AFECA0FCFCA32), then complete the registration fields, hit register, and choose “launch” on the next screen to view.
(18 December 2013) The Association of American Publishers reports on an independent study that analyzes the usage pattern of articles published in over 2,800 academic and professional journals. It identifies the “half-life” of journals — the amount of time it takes for articles in a journal to receive half of their lifetime total downloads —…
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