Ingram Digital offers publishers a transition to Ingram Search and Discover platform - May 30, 2008
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital Group, US, has announced an agreement with software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, to offer publishers a transition option from Live Search Books to the Ingram Search and Discover platform. Microsoft recently announced plans to shut down the Live Search Books… Read More
China receives first ‘Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award 2008’ - May 30, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters and the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Research Front Analysis Center jointly presented China's scientific papers and their authors with the first 'Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award 2008'. This accolade is awarded to prominent scientific papers… Read More
Reed Elsevier to eliminate 68 IT jobs in Dayton - May 30, 2008
Publisher Reed Elsevier, Netherlands, is reportedly drawing up plans to cut down more jobs as it moves work overseas. According to an internal memo recently sent to employees, 68 Elsevier Dayton IT jobs will be eliminated by the end of the year. The job cuts are… Read More
Portico, Equinox Publishing sign digital preservation deal - May 30, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Equinox Publishing to preserve its entire digital journals collection of 28 titles. Equinox Publishing publishes books and journals on a variety of subjects for an academic audience. Through this… Read More
BioMed Central launches new journal on hematology and oncology - May 30, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new journal - Journal of Hematology & Oncology. Delong Liu of the New York Medical College will be the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. He will be supported by an expert editorial board that will… Read More
Serials Solutions announces SUSHI support through the 360 Counter e-resource assessment service - May 30, 2008
Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has successfully tested and deployed the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), with its 360 Counter e-resource assessment service. Support for SUSHI in 360 Counter will allow librarians to bypass time-consuming, manual data aggregation of usage statistics and… Read More
