Kyoto University study uses Scopus data to examine effectiveness of 21st Century COE programme for accelerating research performance - June 21, 2010
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Kyoto University is employing its data and functions in a study performed by Dr. Takanori Ida, Professor at the Graduate School of Economics - Kyoto University. Scopus claims to be the world's… Read More
SAGE unveils new online resource – SAGE Insight - June 21, 2010
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a new online resource, SAGE Insight (http://www.sagepub.com/sageinsight), that will put the spotlight on research published across its scholarly journals. SAGE Insight links to highly topical articles from across the 560 journals hosted… Read More
Portico and John Benjamins Publishing Company in deal to preserve e-journals - June 21, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company to preserve the latter's entire collection of 47 e-journals. With the inclusion of these 47 e-journals, over 11,000 e-journals, 33,000 e-books and 10 d-collections from 110 publishers on… Read More
AIP applied physics journals top Thomson Reuters rankings again in 2009 - June 21, 2010
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced that AIP journals produced nearly one quarter of the articles in the Applied Physics category last year, and received almost 40 percent of all the cited references in the category. These numbers are among the figures reported in… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 21, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Helena Bukvova ( The Impact Factor of Open Access journals: data and trends); Erick Schonfeld (Mobile Searches Estimated To Grow To 20 Percent Of Total By 2012); Kent Anderson (The Subordination of Browsers, Search, and Links: Will Apps and Mobile… Read More
N.Y. consortium selects Bibliotheca, Inc. to provide RFID solutions for libraries - June 18, 2010
Library solutions provider Bibliotheca, Inc., Switzerland, has announced that it has been selected by the Automated Library Information System (ALIS) of Nassau County, N.Y., to provide a range of RFID library solutions for the 54 independent public libraries that comprise ALIS. ALIS is a consortium of… Read More
