Global water organisations launch new journal – World Water: Water Reuse & Desalination - July 21, 2010
The Water Environment Federation (WEF), WateReuse Association (WRA), and the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF) recently announced the launch of a new journal - World Water: Water Reuse & Desalination. The collaborative journal is designed to address the growing informational, technical and operational needs of global water… Read More
Beech Tree Publishing to preserve e-journals in Portico - July 21, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with Beech Tree Publishing. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's collection of three e-journals. Beech Tree is an independent UK-based company that publishes the peer-reviewed academic journals Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal,… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - July 21, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
Wiley to be exclusive global publisher and distributor of RSMeans professional reference titles - July 20, 2010
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and RSMeans, North America's leading supplier of construction cost information, have announced a partnership to deliver a new generation of reference materials to the commercial and residential construction markets. Under the deal, Wiley will be the exclusive global publisher… Read More
University of Michigan selects Serials Solutions’ Summon service to improve discovery of library collections - July 20, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that the University of Michigan (U-M) has chosen the Summon web-scale discovery service to make searching its library collections effective, fast and easy. More than 50,000 students and faculty at all three of its… Read More
Amazon reports increased sales of Kindle following price cut - July 20, 2010
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced that Kindle device unit sales accelerated each month in the second quarter - both on a sequential month-over-month basis and on a year-over-year basis. According to the company, the growth rate of Kindle, its e-book reader, tripled since… Read More
