Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - July 30, 2008
Knowledgespeak is planning to atomise its content. A preliminary but significant initiative has already been taken in this direction. For an internationally esteemed association, we have repackaged and categorised our news under various topics to suit the information needs of its members. We are exploring other possibilities of bringing a… Read More
Sourcing information online hurts diversity in scientific thinking, says study - July 29, 2008
Scientific journal Science recently published a study according to which scientific scholars are citing more-recent and less-diverse sources to back up their findings as a result of the proliferation of online journal articles. Science is an international weekly journal produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. After… Read More
Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics signs Berlin Declaration on OA - July 29, 2008
National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy, has signed the Berlin Declaration on 'Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities' to help break down hurdles for accessing scientific knowledge. The declaration, launched in 2003, was created to sustain and encourage the free exchange of… Read More
Scopus adds pre-print research abstracts from publishers - July 29, 2008
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has added 'Articles-in-Press' (AiP), abstracts of accepted research papers published prior to being printed, from journals produced by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, and Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Later this year,… Read More
Thomson Reuters adds new features to ISI Web of Knowledge platform - July 29, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that new features have been added to ISI Web of Knowledge. Most notably, a citation mapping tool has been incorporated to provide researchers with a visual result to their research. The citation mapping tool tracks an article's… Read More
Oxford University Press announces forthcoming journal on OA databases in biology - July 29, 2008
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced plans to launch a new online-only journal - The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. Computational biologist David Landsmann will serve as the journal's editor-in-chief. Scheduled for launch in January 2009, the Journal of… Read More
