July 2017

Analytics & Data

By |July 5th, 2017

There is a demand for analytics, especially in the realm of big data. To respond, comprehensive information management needs quality of data. DATAVERSITY brought this […]

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Summer Learning Opportunity

By |July 4th, 2017

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker Mary Anne Baynes, Chief Marketing Officer of Overleaf and Dr. John Hammersley, Co-founder and CEO of Overleaf on […]

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It’s All Semantics

By |July 4th, 2017

Semantic search is search that understands the meaning of a natural language query as opposed to viewing search terms as keywords. Simplicable brought this interesting […]

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Naming Conventions

By |July 3rd, 2017

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics, and the practice and science of classification […]

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Understanding Knowledge

By |July 3rd, 2017

There are many terms used in relation to artificial intelligence. Some are synonymous and some are just distantly related. Sys-Con Media brought this news to […]

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June 2017

Latest Attempt in Cyber Warfare

By |June 30th, 2017

Many major firms, airports and government departments in Ukraine have been struck by a massive cyber attack which spread across Europe this week. This interesting […]

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Free Educational Opportunity

By |June 30th, 2017

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Journals Committee has added an additional free guest speaker talk to their summer programs.  This will be a talk via webinar […]

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Accountability in Open Access Publishing

By |June 29th, 2017

A recent United States court ruling awarded publisher Elsevier $15m in damages for copyright infringements by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and […]

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Scholar Communications and Machine Learning

By |June 29th, 2017

The last 30 years in scholarly communications have shown a steady trend towards digital content creation and delivery, especially for journals. The industry focus has […]

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New Partnership Enhances Collaborative Technologies

By |June 28th, 2017

Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and Zapnito announced a new partnership to enable STM and humanities publishers, professional societies, and other knowledge providers to foster […]

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