JISC report examines role and future of data scientists - October 23, 2008
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) recently published a report, according to which the future of data science should be organised and developed at international as well as institutional and discipline levels. The report, 'Skills, Role and Career Structure of Data Scientists and Curators -… Read More
Thomson Reuters survey analyses India’s rising scientific prominence - October 23, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the results of a survey assessing India's growing scientific prominence. In the September/October issue of Science Watch, Thomson Reuters analyses data from its National Science Indicators and Essential Science Indicators to show India's steady increase in research… Read More
DTIC Online portal deploys Deep Web Technologies’ MultiSearch interface - October 23, 2008
Search solutions provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has launched an updated interface for the Defense Technical Information Center's new DTIC Online research portal (http://multisearch.dtic.mil). DTIC is part of the US' Department of Defense (DOD). The interface, known as MultiSearch, offers four defence… Read More
Infovell broadens reach into deep web - October 23, 2008
Research engine for the deep web Infovell, US, has announced that four major new content sources will soon be added to its growing index of Deep Web material. New sources will include scholarly journals from Oxford University Press, MIT Press and Hindawi Publishing, as well as… Read More
Elsevier journal accepted into the Social Science Citation Index - October 23, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the journal External link Management Accounting Research has been accepted by Thomson Reuters, for inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Management Accounting Research has continued to attract increasingly high quality papers, and showed itself to have exceptional… Read More
MSU researcher named editor of international plant research journal - October 23, 2008
The Plant Journal, an international journal devoted to publishing original research papers on fundamental plant biology problems, has named Christoph Benning, Michigan State University professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, as the next editor-in-chief of the journal. He will begin serving as co-editor with Harry Klee,… Read More
