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Knovel forms content partnership with Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society - 06 Sep 2007
Web-based information services provider Knovel Corporation, US, has announced that it has partnered with the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA) to provide new content to subscribers of Knovel's online technical reference collection. The addition of ISA's technical references and handbooks will provide Knovel's subscribers with valuable information about automation and control systems. Access to these resources via Knovel's fast and accurate search technology will enable design engineers to quickly tap the right resources to develop complex systems. The agreement is one of several publishing partnerships Knovel has recently entered into to provide the most comprehensive source of technical reference books and databases for focused engineering disciplines. Knovel's specialised suite of built-in analytical tools provides researchers with practical new ways to find and apply critical information. In addition to trusted content, engineers rely on Knovel for data extraction, calculations, tabular data analysis and equation solving.
eMolecules, Wiley launch chemistry search engine ChemGate - 06 Sep 2007
Chemistry search engine services firm eMolecules, Inc., US, and Wiley-VCH, the German subsidiary of publisher John Wiley & Sons, US, have announced the release of the search engine ChemGate at www.chemgate.emolecules.com. ChemGate, which contains high quality NMR, IR and MS spectra, allows chemists to search by chemical structure and access spectra for a given structure by a single click. This makes complex identification of chemicals and structure elucidation of novel materials easier than previous methods. Most of the NMR spectra are assigned by master spectroscopists and have literature references. Prof. Wolfgang Robien, a CNMR expert at the University of Vienna, reviews the spectral data to ensure its quality. The Wiley collection of spectra covers a wide area of chemistry. Combined with the eMolecules chemical search engine, ChemGate seeks to help chemists to rapidly retrieve and analyse spectra essential to their research.
OA to health research publications, CIHR unveils new policy - 06 Sep 2007
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced a new policy to promote public access to the results of research it has funded. CIHR will require its researchers to ensure that their original research articles are freely available online within six months of publication. The policy builds on other important initiatives to promote openness and transparency of CIHR-funded research such as the registration of clinical trials and randomised controlled trials. It will apply to all grants awarded after January 1, 2008 that receive funding in whole or in part from CIHR. Under the new policy, all grant recipients should make every effort to ensure that their peer-reviewed research articles are freely available as soon as possible after publication. Researchers can deposit the article in an archive, such as PubMed Central or an institutional repository, and/or by publishing results in an open access (OA) journal. A growing number of journals already meet these requirements, and CIHR-funded researchers are encouraged to consider publishing in these journals. In addition, grant recipients will now be required to deposit bioinformatics, atomic, and molecular coordinate data, as already required by most journals, into the appropriate public database immediately upon publication of research results.
Mark Logic ties up with Temis to provide XML content applications - 06 Sep 2007
XML content server provider Mark Logic Corporation, US, has announced a partnership with text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US. Under the deal, the companies will work together to provide XML content applications for the publishing, government, life sciences and other industries and will work on co-marketing and co-selling opportunities. MarkLogic Server is projected to help enterprises unlock the value of their content, improving how they integrate, enrich and contextualise it to deliver new products and services. Organisations can expect to leverage existing content to create multiple new products on a single infrastructure, reducing time to market and costs involved in bringing new products to market. Temis provides information discovery and knowledge extraction capabilities, with solutions for indexing and organising collections of documents and extracting information. Luxid, its next-generation information intelligence solution, seeks to provide automated content indexing through powerful semantic annotation and accurate content categorisation. Together, both companies will enable organisations to access large stores of previously untapped textual data, enrich this content automatically, and use it to create new content applications.
Canon Communications acquires Engel Publishing Partners - 06 Sep 2007
B2B publisher and digital media firm Canon Communications LLC, US, part of Apprise Media LLC, has announced that it has acquired Engel Publishing Partners from Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. Engel is a niche B2B media company serving the $634 billion global pharmaceutical market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Canon already holds a vital position in the life sciences sector worldwide through its publications, trade shows and digital media products covering the medical device manufacturing sector. With this acquisition, the company seeks to expand its market reach to the global pharmaceutical manufacturing sector. Engel is Canon's fifth follow-on acquisition in the past two years. The company's array of print, online and data products and conferences, including Med Ad News, R&D Directions magazines and the PharmaLive.com website and interactive products, are projected to significantly widen Canon's coverage of the advanced, technology-based manufacturing industry. While Med Ad News covers the business and marketing activities of the pharmaceutical industry, R&D Directions is a leading title providing practical knowledge to research and development professionals in pharmaceutical companies. Through its leading website, PharmaLive.com, the company offers several interactive products, including the eKnowledgebase, PharmaSentry, the PharmaLive.com eNewsletter Series and Therapeutics Daily eNewsletter Series, and OnDemand Special Reports. Each year, Engel produces a series of conferences, including the Patient-Centered Marketing Conference, the Drug Development Summit, and the Manny Awards programme.
Microsoft Research to sponsors BioMed Central 2007 Research Awards - 06 Sep 2007
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that Microsoft Research, part of technology firm Microsoft Corp., US, has agreed to be the premium sponsor of the BioMed Central Research Awards for 2007. The awards recognise excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication in one of the publisher's 180 journals. Nominations are now open with an application deadline of December 21, 2007. Any physician or scientist who publishes original research of major significance in one of BioMed Central's journals during 2007 will be eligible to be considered for the award. Two awards of $5000 - one for biology research and one for medical research - will be made. The winning articles will be selected by a panel including BioMed Central editorial team members and external experts in biology and medicine. Winners will be announced at the BioMed Central Research Awards dinner in early March 2008.
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