MOOCs have implications for libraries, in particular how courses interact with library services. A recent article in D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2013, by Forrest Wright explains how. Abstract Over the past several months, the proliferation of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has been hailed as a potent defense against the rising cost and insular culture of…
(Seattle, WA, 18 March 2013) Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, introduces Summon® 2.0 creating another historical milestone for library discovery services. Optimized for academic research, Summon 2.0 represents groundbreaking features and a new, modern interface for the Summon discovery service that will resonate with users familiar with open web search engines. Streamlined navigation and contextual…
(Alexandria, Va., USA, 14 March 2013)– The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the addition of English-translated patent records from Vietnam and Thailand, as well as Malaysian full-text patents, to Thomson Innovation®, the world’s leading patent intelligence and collaboration platform.…
To encourage reading and love of reading at HKUST, the Library has launched a new virtual space called “We All Read”. This is a place for HKUST community members to share what they like (or even love) to read: mystery novels, science fiction, poetry, history, travel, business, sport. It does not have to be books…
Index Lippincott Williams & Wilkins content in the Summon service to be indexed (Seattle, WA, 14 March 2013) Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, and Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals, researchers, and students, today announced that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) content available on the Ovid institutional research platform…
(14 March 2013) The worldwide survey of academic opinion that will fuel both the 2013-14 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the 2014 World Reputation Rankings has now been launched. Thomson Reuters, which supplies all data for THE‘s rankings, confirmed today it has launched its fourth annual Academic Reputation Survey. Over the coming weeks,…
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 11:00am – 12:30pm Featured Expert: Jonathan Clark, founder of Jonathan Clark & Partners. Jonathan is an independent advisor on strategy and innovation in assisting publishing professionals to re-invent their businesses, products and processes. During this webinar, he will amplify on the research report he recently authored for the Publishing Research Consortium,…
Hot Articles from bX is a new free usage-based service that shows you immediately, based on real usage data, what is hot in your subject. Similar to the other bX Usage-Based Services, the bX Recommender, Most Popular Articles, and Journal Popularity Report services, Hot Articles is based on usage data from millions of researchers across…
All eight of New Zealand’s universities are being taken to the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal for refusing to agree to an increased annual licence fee which allows lecturers to copy authors’ work for students. Read the story here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10870331
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have signed an agreement to publish the conference proceedings from the 28th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) on an open access basis. ICPEAC, which is being held in Lanzhou, China, on 24 – 30 July 2013, is a biennial international meeting…
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