Collexis Holdings, JISC Collections agreement to help widen access to essential biomedical research in the UK - July 9, 2008
Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical research community in the UK. Under the deal,… Read More
Springer publishes 5,000th volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science - July 9, 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the publication of the 5,000th volume in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The series provides scientifically reliable information on computer science in about 200,000 articles. LNCS claims to be one of the world's most authoritative computer science… Read More
Swets launches latest technical update to its SwetsWise portfolio - July 9, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the launch of SwetsWise - Release 5.1, the latest technical update to its pioneering SwetsWise portfolio of products and services. Release 5.1 implements a whole host of additional features and functionalities into SwetsWise Subscriptions, the core focus of the… Read More
More BioMed Central journals chosen for inclusion in MEDLINE and CABI - July 9, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that three of its journals have recently been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals - Biology Direct, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Neural Development - were accepted following review by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, an… Read More
Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - July 9, 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
EC launches European Research Infrastructures portal along with ESF - July 8, 2008
The European Commission (EC), in collaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF), France, has launched a web portal on European Research Infrastructures (RI). The portal, available at http://www.riportal.eu/, allows access to data collected as part of a recent… Read More
