An announcement from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation states that if you are interested in applying for the 2014 ATLA, do it now to avoid delays. The online application site is located here: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/atla (Please click on the “How to Apply” link located on the right of the page). *TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS FOR SUBMITTING ONLINE* If…
(4 September 2013) Part of a historic archive of space images, including Soviet photos of the surface of Venus, hand-assembled mosaics of Jupiter’s moons, and an incredibly detailed map of the Moon, has been published online by UCL (University College London). The rare photos and maps have been made available to the public as part…
(10 September 2013) Kobo is partnering with National Book Store in the Philippines to bring Kobo’s eReading platform to the country. Along with Kobo’s localized online experience and access to its eBookstore of 4 million titles, National Book Store is making Kobo’s eReading devices exclusively available at its 145 locations. The Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo…
(Hoboken, N.J. 11 September 2013) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced it will join patientACCESS, a new program which offers low-cost access to medical and scientific research articles to patients and caregivers. From September 2013, 310 Wiley journals will join the international collaboration between publishers, the Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing…
(11 September 2013) The Royal Society of Chemistry has integrated a new system for monitoring article-level metrics into a selection of its scientific journals. The metrics are provided by London-based start-up Altmetric. The new service extracts online mentions of scholarly articles from social media, newspapers, blogs and other sources and collates them into reports that…
(10 September 2013) The National University of Singapore (NUS) has emerged as the top university in Asia in the 2013/2014 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. The University was placed 24th in the rankings, moving up a spot from its 25th placing last year. The QS World University Rankings evaluates over 800 universities based on…
(11 September 2013) IFLA’s Acquisition & Collection Development Section (ACD) has published a simplified Chinese version of its widely read Electronic Resource Guide, which will complement the classical one. Access the simplified Chinese translation here. Read the announcement here. http://www.ifla.org/node/8002
(5 September 2103) Today, global publisher Cambridge University Press announced a comprehensive partnership with leading adaptive learning company Knewton. Cambridge University Press, one of the world’s foremost English Language Teaching (ELT) publishers, will use Knewton technology to create personalized learning experiences in its industry-leading ELT digital products for students worldwide. The partnership will see Knewton…
(Oxford 11 September 2013) Publishing Technology today announced that its longstanding clients, Human Kinetics and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have joined a new sales representation and distribution venture in China. The agreement is a result of Publishing Technology’s local alliance with CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation, and its significant…
(Cambridge, MA, 10 September 2013) Edx, the not-for-profit online learning initiative, today announced its partnership with Google to jointly develop the edX open source learning platform, Open edX, and expand the availability of the platform and its learning tools to individuals and institutions around the world. In collaboration with Google, edX will build out and…
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