Elsevier launches new web-based tool, SciVal Spotlight - July 1, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of SciVal Spotlight, a customised web-based tool that offers institutions a multidisciplinary perspective of research performance to evaluate, establish and execute more informed research strategies. SciVal Spotlight uses a visualisation technique to produce customised maps that provide graphical… Read More
WK Health launches new market research service, inThought - July 1, 2009
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has introduced a new market research service, Wolters Kluwer Health inThought. The service was developed to help financial analysts, health care suppliers and drug makers understand where developmental drugs, medical devices and therapies are positioned today… Read More
NPG ties up with Charlesworth to incorporate XMP metadata in PDF version of ‘Nature’ - July 1, 2009
Publishing solutions provider The Charlesworth Group, UK, has announced a partnership with scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, to incorporate eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata within online PDFs for the science journal Nature. The move is expected to improve the archiving of new… Read More
Emerald offers free online access to journals - July 1, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, is making its new journals free online. Under the initiative, every two months, users will be able to access up to three new titles recently added to the Emerald portfolio at http://info.emeraldinsight.com/new_launch/index.htm.
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SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection now live on the SAGE Reference Online platform - July 1, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the new SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks, digitised and hosted on the SAGE Reference Online platform, is now available for libraries worldwide. The first demos of the Handbook Collection will be… Read More
ebrary announces new COUNTER-compliant usage reports - July 1, 2009
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has developed new COUNTER-compliant usage statistics that make it easier for customers to view and analyse how e-books and other electronic materials are being used. ebrary will showcase its new granular reports at the… Read More
