From the monthly archives: July 2011
INFORMS now offers a one-time purchase option for their digital archives of articles from volume 1, issue 1 through 1997 of the 9 INFORMS journals launched before 1998. This content is not available elsewhere to institutions in digital format.” The one time purchase price can also be found at the above link. Current institutional [...]
Read More... →From The Christian Science Monitor, July 28, 2011:
“A high school in Republic, Mo. bans two books, including Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five,” after a parent complains about material incompatible with the Bible.” Slaughterhouse Five is being removed from the curriculum while Sarah Ockler’s Twenty Boy Summer, is being removed from the library due to the same [...]
Read More... →ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is pleased to announce that Kate Wittenberg has been appointed the new Managing Director of Portico (www.portico.org), effective September 1. Eileen Fenton, who successfully led Portico since its founding in 2002, will work closely with Kate over the coming weeks as Kate transitions fully into her new role and [...]
Read More... →SPIE, among the first publishers to respond in 2009 to economic challenges besetting the research library community by reducing subscription prices, is further reducing the prices of its SPIE Digital Library.
SPIE is reducing current prices by 5% for 2012, Director of Publications Eric Pepper announced today.
SPIE implemented a 10% rollback in pricing for [...]
Read More... →GeoScienceWorld, a comprehensive internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, is pleased to announce the appointment of Alix Vance as Executive Director of the nonprofit organization as of August 1, 2011. Ms. Vance states, “I am extremely pleased to join the GeoScienceWorld community. I look forward to serving the Board and GeoScienceWorld partners around the globe in alignment with GeoScienceWorld’s [...]
Read More... →Picture submitted by Christine Ross, University of Florida
Pepper LOVES bags, boxes – anything she can crawl inside – only takes her seconds once one is set on the ground. This photo, although you cannot see the label, features her sleeping inside an EBSCO bag that I got from a vendor table.
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