UK surpasses US in research impact, says Thomson Reuters report - October 14, 2011
Thomson Reuters, a US-based provider of information for healthcare professionals, has released a study that says the average 'impact' of research originating in the UK has risen, surpassing that of the research colossus US. This is despite a relative decrease in research output and private-sector research… Read More
Bowker adds content from Doody’s Book Reviews to Syndetics Solutions - October 14, 2011
Bibliographic information management solutions provider Bowker, US, has announced that Syndetics Solutions, its OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, is adding content from Doody's Book Reviews, a source of reviews of medical and healthcare works. Libraries who subscribe to Syndetics Solutions can add the reviews to… Read More
Data publishing in Pensoft journals integrated with the Dryad Data Repository - October 14, 2011
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced that data publishing workflow of eight journals published by Pensoft has now been integrated with the Dryad Digital Repository, facilitating data archiving for data files associated with articles in these journals. The workflow is highly automated as a result of… Read More
Pearson launches OpenClass to increase access and collaboration in higher education - October 14, 2011
Education services provider Pearson, US, has announced the launch of OpenClass in a major move to increase access and collaboration in higher education. A key component of Pearson's vision to increase access, achievement and affordability, OpenClass offers institutions and instructors the ability to engage and interact… Read More
The Canadian Entomologist journal joins Cambridge University Press - October 14, 2011
Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing division of the UK's University of Cambridge, has announced that it will become the new home of The Canadian Entomologist journal from January 2012. The journal is a peer-reviewed, international journal dedicated to publishing current research in all facets of… Read More
TEMIS launches next generation of Luxid, positions semantic content enrichment at the core of the ECM - October 14, 2011
Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced the launch of the next generation of Luxid, its flagship semantic content enrichment solution. Luxid 6 is a powerful semantic tagging platform which automatically extracts relevant information (entities, topics, events, sentiments), identifies relationships residing in unstructured data… Read More
