Serials Solutions offers new features for federated search services - April 16, 2009
Serials Solutions, the e-resource access and management services arm of ProQuest, US, has announced the release of enhanced Full-Text and Peer Review features for the Serials Solutions 360 Search federated search service. Using a combination of data supplied by the Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase and Ulrich's… Read More
EMpact Sales and East View Information Services announce strategic partnership - April 16, 2009
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced an agreement with East View Information Services (East View), a leading provider of information products and services in foreign languages and English translation. Under the deal, EMpact will… Read More
SAGE partners with online education applications - April 16, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE recently announced a partnership with two industry-leading, online education applications - Blackboard and CourseSmart. The synergy created from this partnership provides both students and education professionals with an innovative new mode of education. Blackboard/WebCT claims to be the most used course management system… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 16, 2009
The Fourth edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Colin Smith (Concern about accepted manuscripts and the possibility of open access publishing); Gavin Baker (NIH Open-Access Policy Turns 1 Year Old); Kent Anderson (Are e-Books Already Mainstream?); David Clover (Online Research Papers Database - ORO); and Roddy MacLeod (Top… Read More
Manuscript Central now available in Simplified Chinese - April 15, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that Manuscript Central, the flagship application of its ScholarOne product line, is now available in Simplified Chinese globally. Manuscript Central is a peer review and online submission application chosen by leading publishers and societies worldwide. The… Read More
ProQuest extends freeze on Continuing Service Fees through 2011 - April 15, 2009
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced that it is extending its freeze on Continuing Service Fees, ongoing product support and access fees for perpetual archive agreements, through 2011. In addition, ProQuest is offering discounts on Continuing Service Fees to libraries that make new… Read More
