ConTech Pharma 2023 – Full programme is out now
One-day hybrid event is taking place online and at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel, London Heathrow
One-day hybrid event is taking place online and at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel, London Heathrow
The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive desk reference providing the essential principles, skills, and knowledge to manage special collections in any setting.
It covers all aspects of special collections work from preservation to advocacy, and this new edition has been revised and updated to incorporate the many developments in the field including updated guidance on decolonising collections management, working towards zero-carbon preservation, the impact of Covid-19 and new legislation affecting special collections.
ConTech's webinar today is entitled: 'An Overview of Semantic Scholar and our Response to the COVID-19 Crisis'. The speaker is Sebastian Kohlmeier, senior manager for business operations at the Allen Institute for AI.
This week’s ContTech webinar, on Wednesday 20 May, will be delivered by Michael Puscar, founder of Oiga Technologies
ProQuest has launched the first product in its ProQuest One initiative
Cambridge University Press has launched a new publishing model to provide an outlet for world-class research and writing that sits outside the traditional formats of book or journal article
The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world
O’Reilly Media’s new version of Safari: O’Reilly’s Learning Platform for Higher Education is now available from ProQuest
SAGE Publishing has published the BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research
Gale, a library resource provider and a Cengage company, has announced the launch of the final modules of its Early Arabic Printed Books archive for the international higher education market.
Early Arabic Printed Books features a number of technological innovations pioneered by Gale to ensure scholars in Arabic-speaking countries and beyond can research the range of content, including interfaces in Arabic and European languages, right-to-left-read navigation of Arabic texts, an embedded Arabic keyboard and newly developed optical character recognition software.
Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Patrick Hargitt explains why 2022 became the year that accessibility got serious
Joseph Koivisto and Jordan Sly from the University of Maryland discuss the implications of the publications-as-data model
Despite the collective and decisive step changes in enabling the transition to open access this year, we should not be complacent, writes Susie Winter
Thomas Shaw and Andrew Barker from Lancaster University Library discuss the realities, challenges and future impact of open access in the research community
It’s not a question of if, but how. The future of scholarly publishing is open, yet the debate on how to accelerate the growth of open access continues