BioMed Central journals receive higher impact factor ratings - June 23, 2008
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, US has announced that 40 of its journals have received official impact factors. Thomson Reuters recently released the 2007 Journal Citation Report. Highlights of this year's Impact Factors include an impressive showing by BMC Biology, the biological flagship journal of… Read More
SAGE announces 500th journal site on SAGE Journals Online platform - June 23, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE recently announced the launch of its 500th journal site on the SAGE Journals Online platform. The 500th journal site was for the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (JPEN), now published by SAGE on behalf of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral… Read More
University of Notre Dame selects Ex Libris’ Primo discovery and delivery solution - June 23, 2008
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame in conjunction with its colleagues in the Michiana Academic Library Consortium have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution to serve as a major library portal. An Ex Libris customer… Read More
Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - June 23, 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
H.W. Wilson and MLA make article-level records available in OCLC WorldCat.org - June 20, 2008
Database producers H.W. Wilson and Modern Language Association (MLA) have agreed to make article-level records available in WorldCat.org, the web destination that allows information seekers to find what they need from a single source through OCLC's cooperative organisation of libraries. Under the… Read More
Dermatology Nurses’ Association tie up with LWW for official journal - June 20, 2008
The Dermatology Nurses' Association (DNA), US, is set to release a new official journal published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins (LWW). The new journal - as yet unnamed - will be made available online in its entirety, in a bid to make it more easily accessible… Read More
