JISC Collections and Elsevier renew agreement for e-journal content - November 30, 2011
JISC Collections, the membership organisation that supports the provision of digital content for education and research in the UK, has agreed to the terms of a license to renew access for the next five years to Elsevier's journal content, via SciVerse ScienceDirect… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell joins CrossMark service to ensure content integrity - November 30, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons Inc., US, has announced that it is a participant in the CrossMark service from CrossRef. CrossRef is a multi-publisher initiative to provide a standard way for readers to identify and locate the publisher-maintained version… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health exhibiting at the 2011 Online Information Conference - November 30, 2011
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Ovid will showcase new initiatives at the ongoing Online Information Conference being held in London's Grand Olympia Hall through December 1, 2011. Exhibiting in the Wolters Kluwer Health booth #448, Ovid will be demonstrating its local… Read More
New EBSCOhost app for Android devices allows library users to search premium EBSCOhost content - November 30, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has released an EBSCOhost Android app ensuring that Android device users can quickly and easily take full advantage of their premium EBSCOhost database content from wherever they happen to be. The Android app is the latest option in… Read More
ProQuest signs French national agreement for access to Early English Books Online - November 30, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES) in France have signed a new national licence agreement. The deal will enable all research and educational institutions throughout France and French territories to access Early English Books Online (EEBO). … Read More
AIP Publishing partners with MathJax - November 29, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has become a MathJax partner by providing major funding to the MathJax initiative. It now offers MathJax to render mathematics in its online journals. MathJax is an open-source JavaScript display engine that produces high-quality math… Read More