SwetsWise Selection Support now includes package deal reports - July 7, 2010
Journal subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that it has added functionality to enable libraries to assess the value of package deals in its evaluation and analysis tool, SwetsWise Selection Support. This new feature enhances the capabilities of SwetsWise Selection Support by allowing customers to… Read More
Accucoms announces new sales representation deals with OECD and GSA - July 7, 2010
Accucoms, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has signed new sales representation agreements with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Geological Society of America (GSA). Accucoms offers publishers worldwide a sales representation service that includes… Read More
Optical Society names Elizabeth Nolan as Chief Publishing Officer - July 7, 2010
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Elizabeth Nolan has been promoted to chief publishing officer. She most recently served as the senior deputy director of publishing sales and marketing at OSA. Nolan succeeds Dr. John S. Childs, publisher/senior director, who retired from OSA on July… Read More
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - July 7, 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
Reading on paper faster than on reading devices, says Nielsen Norman study - July 6, 2010
Product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group, US, recently conducted a study, according to which it takes longer to read a book on an iPad or Kindle than on the printed page. For the study, Dr. Jakob Nielsen compared the reading times of 24 users on the… Read More
CHLA and CIHR to develop first Canadian Virtual Health Library - July 6, 2010
The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has announced that the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are moving forward with the development of the Canadian Virtual Health Library (CVHL) - a first for… Read More
