CCC enhances Pay-Per-Use Services for academic institutions - June 24, 2011
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced an enhancement to its Pay-Per-Use Services for academic institutions. Users can now obtain reuse rights for entire books, including many that are currently commercially unavailable. Publishers can offer reuse rights for their books,… Read More
SAGE announces new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science - June 24, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the retirement of the current Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Professor Matthew Cartmell from the University of Glasgow. He will be succeeded by the new Editor-in-Chief, Professor John Chew… Read More
University of New Brunswick Libraries becomes first Canadian university to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services - June 24, 2011
Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that the University of New Brunswick Libraries is the first Canadian library to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services, the Web-based cooperative library management tools for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, license management and workflow… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ Academic Reputation Survey for 2011 generates highest-ever global response rate - June 23, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the completion of its Academic Reputation Survey for 2011, achieving more than 17,500 responses from professional scholars in 137 countries. The survey claims to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken by Thomson Reuters and continues to… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Elsevier partner to provide full-text searching of SciVerse ScienceDirect database - June 23, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced a partnership under which, full text from SciVerse ScienceDirect will be added to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). ScienceDirect, part of the SciVerse suite of search and discovery… Read More
CAS names 16 Ph.D. Chemistry students to 2011 SciFinder Academic Exchange Program - June 23, 2011
Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced that sixteen Ph.D. students from schools in 13 countries will gather in Columbus, Ohio, this August to collaborate with CAS as members of the 2011 SciFinder Academic Exchange Program. … Read More
