GlobalSpec announces expanded partnership with the IEEE - November 15, 2007
Search engine and online engineering community operator GlobalSpec, US, has announced an expanded partnership agreement with the US' Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Under the new deal, visitors to the IEEE Xplore website, a digital library providing full text access to high quality technical… Read More
THES-QS use Scopus Custom Data to evaluate World University Rankings - November 15, 2007
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus Custom Data is being used to help establish the annual THES-QS World University Rankings. Scopus has been chosen to provide the data source for the metric evaluation for the official rankings… Read More
EBSCO announces new series of packages to EBSCO A-to-Z service - November 15, 2007
Subscription services provider EBSCO, US, has introduced a new series of packages to its EBSCO A-to-Z service. With this move, the company seeks to help its customers capitalise on the wealth of information being published via open access journals. The EBSCO Open Access Journals collection represents… Read More
Thieme releases second edition of ‘Ultrasound: A Practical Approach to Clinical Problems’ - November 15, 2007
Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the release of the second edition of 'Ultrasound: A Practical Approach to Clinical Problems.' Completely updated, the book takes a clinical approach to ultrasound based on signs and symptoms. Based on a popular course… Read More
French national library head defends digitisation programme - November 15, 2007
Bruno Racine, the head of Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the National Library of France, has said that the Library's massive programme to digitise billions of books and documents should widen their availability without violating copyright rules. Over the past decade, the library has collected 10 billion documents online, and… Read More
NIH funding and OA provision: President Bush vetoes bill - November 15, 2007
US President George Bush has reportedly vetoed a bill aiming to increase 2008 funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from $28.6 billion in 2007 to $30 billion in 2008. The bill includes $150 billion in funding for the departments of Labor and Education and an open access (OA)… Read More
