Knowledgespeak Newsletter

7 November 2012

Scope eKnowledge Center to exhibit at Online Information 2012 Scope eKnowledge Center, a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, will be exhibiting at the forthcoming Online Information 2012, scheduled for November 20 - 21, 2012, at the Victoria Park Plaza, London. During the event, Scope will present some of its latest product offerings for information providers. These include ConSCIse, AuthEntik, diSCOver and TranSCIse. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO Publishing releases Humanities Source Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released Humanities Source, a comprehensive resource for the Humanities field. The bibliographic and full-text database was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson, and includes many unique sources that were never previously available. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LWW launches new online test-prep programme - Bratton's Family Medicine Board Review Powered By PrepU Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has launched Bratton's Family Medicine Board Review Powered by PrepU, an innovative new way for residents and physicians to study for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification exam. This new, online test-prep programme makes studying for the exam more efficient than a textbook or online practice test by honing in on a physician's areas of weakness. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest project with TAMU Scholars to train OCR tech to read early modern fonts ProQuest has participated in a project that will accelerate research of 15th through 17th Century cultural history. The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books to the Early Modern OCR Project at Texas A&M. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IET and Minesoft launch Minesoft Inspec platform The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and global information solutions provider, Minesoft, have announced the launch of their Minesoft Inspec platform. The new platform is designed to benefit patent professionals and end-users working in the intellectual property and patent fields and links the IET's Inspec database with Minesoft's patent information services and tools. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Pearson announces Project Blue Sky, a cloud-based content service Pearson has announced Project Blue Sky, a cloud-based, content service that provides instructors with easy access to Open Educational Resources (OER). Pearson is partnering with Silicon Valley non-profit Gooru, a search engine for learning materials, and will leverage Gooru's powerful search capabilities to build applications that seamlessly integrate high-quality learning resources on the web, including OER, with instructor-created and Pearson content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Library of Poland and OCLC in deal to add 1.3 million records to WorldCat Library information provider OCLC and the National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa) have signed an agreement to add 1.3 million Polish library records to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the world's largest resource for discovery of library materials and increasing the visibility of these collections for researchers around the world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UBM DeusM and UBM Electronics launch The Connecting Edge UBM DeusM and UBM Electronics have launched The Connecting Edge, a new online community devoted to inspiring and empowering engineers to design high-quality products. Long-time technology journalist and former design and applications engineer Martin Rowe has been named Editor in Chief of The Connecting Edge. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 'Genome Biology' calls for papers for special issue on plant genomics Genome Biology has announced that it is now accepting research, method and software manuscript submissions that will be considered for publication in a special issue on plant genomics, planned for early summer 2013. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Seventy two institutions join beta programme for cloud-based learning object repository from Blackboard Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc. has announced that seventy two institutions have joined the company in a beta programme for xpLor, a cloud-based learning object repository that will be the industry's first to support multiple learning management systems (LMS). The beta is the largest ever offered by Blackboard, and includes the participation of institutions using Blackboard Learn, ANGEL, joule from Moodlerooms and Sakai. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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