GPO Submits FY2014 Budget Request; Blackboard and Vital Source launch etextbook pilot; ARL joins coalition to support NSF Merit Review Process; Elsevier and Hanser announce plastics engineering E-Books collection in Science Direct; A new Pearl S. Buck novel – 40 years after death; and Chrome update includes conversational search interface
GPO Submits FY2014 Budget Request before Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee
Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations on the U.S. Government Printing Office’s (GPO) FY 2014 appropriations request. GPO is requesting $128.5 million for FY 2014, which is provided through three separate accounts in the annual Legislative Branch Appropriations bill…
Our FY14 Budget request reflects our commitment to digital transformation. Our budget needs – which are primarily for investment in new technology – are fundamentally important to our ongoing digital transformation,” said Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks.
Information Today reports that Blackboard, Inc., and Vital Source Technologies, Inc. launched pilot programs with a number of colleges and universities to test-drive an integrated offering that makes the VitalSource Bookshelf platform and its hundreds of thousands of etextbooks available directly within Blackboard Learn, the company’s flagship learning management system.
“This week ARL joined 109 other organizations as part of the Coalition for National Science Funding in a letter (PDF) to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, as well as the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, expressing concern about recent Congressional actions that call into question the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) merit review process for awarding research grants…”
Elsevier, … and Hanser Publishers, … publisher of plastics technology and applied materials titles, today announced the companies will offer plastics researchers and engineers a new plastics e-book collection on ScienceDirect.
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lastics Engineering from Hanser on ScienceDirect includes more than 55 titles from leading authors, such as Dr. Robert A. Malloy, a member of the Plastics Academy’s Hall of Fame. Other key titles cover plastics design principles, adhesives, rubbers, polymers, and extrusion.
A digital publisher plans to release a newly unearthed novel written by Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, a long-time Bucks County native until her death in 1973…
Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, and InkWell Management, announced today that the manuscript for the soon-to-be published novel was discovered in January and is entitled The Eternal Wonder…”
Citing CNET ResourceShelf reports that “Google demonstrated conversational search at Google I/O a week ago, a style of search designed to be more like natural human speech than the technically constructed search queries that people often use today to retrieve information from a search engine.
Users need to update their Chrome browser to get the new functionality, according to Google…
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