McGraw-Hill Education and CambridgeSoft collaborate to integrate ChemDraw into digital teaching and learning platform - August 30, 2010
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, has partnered with CambridgeSoft to integrate ChemDraw - the molecular editor used by chemistry professionals - into McGraw-Hill Connect Chemistry. Connect Chemistry is a web-based assignment and assessment platform designed for organic chemistry courses. The collaboration between McGraw-Hill… Read More
Elsevier and Royal Tropical Institute sign MoU to provide researchers in developing nations with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus - August 30, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide 150 researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries with access to the latter's online scientific research platform and flagship abstract and citation database - ScienceDirect and… Read More
SAGE completes migration of over 560 journals to next generation platform - August 30, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the successful migration of its more than 560 journals to the next generation of SAGE Journals Online, supported by HighWire 2.0 (H2O) technology. According to HighWire's Director, John Sack, SAGE Journals Online is now a cutting edge, standards-based platform poised to… Read More
Taiwan’s science and technology centre uses Thomson Reuters data for research report - August 30, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced a collaboration with Taiwan's Science & Technology Policy Research and Information Centre (STPI). STPI used Thomson Reuters data in its analysis for its Taiwan Research Report, which aims to inform policymakers about the region's research landscape and global… Read More
OCLC Research webinar to focus on role of data analysis in library collection management - August 30, 2010
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has announced that it will host a free webinar titled 'Managing Collections in the Networked Environment: New Analytic Approaches', on September 9, 2010, at 2 p.m. EDT. Program Officer Constance Malpas and a panel of young library leaders will present… Read More
Hauser paper on cognitive skills had fabricated data, says ‘Cognition’ editor - August 30, 2010
Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser may have fabricated data in a 2002 publication, according to Gerry Altmann, editor of the journal Cognition. Altmann posted a statement on his blog saying that his review of information provided to him by Harvard had convinced him that fabrication was the most plausible… Read More
