ACS President offers congressional testimony on NSF merit review - July 27, 2011
The President of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Dr. Nancy B. Jackson, testified before the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education on July 26, 2011, about the effectiveness of the merit review process used by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to… Read More
Okanagan College in British Columbia selects EBSCO Discovery Service as discovery solution - July 27, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that Okanagan College in British Columbia, Canada, has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery service. After looking at other services, librarians selected EDS for its simple search process, rich metadata and subject headings.… Read More
Access Knowledgespeak using your smartphones and mobile devices via Myscoope.com - July 27, 2011
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available in a mobile browser version and a Java application version. Smartphones and Tablets – We publish a mobile browser version for smartphones and tablet PCs. This is accessible at www.myscoope.com, a site designed specifically for all types of… Read More
US govt. web portal offers training modules on intellectual property law - July 27, 2011
The US' National Technical Information Service (NTIS), in agreement with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has announced the launch of a pilot programme to provide the public with access to official agency training content via the web at usptotraining.gov. Under the arrangement, more than… Read More
Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics makes Goudsmit Papers available online - July 27, 2011
The Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) has digitised the complete papers of renowned physicist Samuel A. Goudsmit (1902-1978). The papers, which occupy 39 linear feet of shelf space in the library and contain about 69,000 images, have been released… Read More
Elsevier and the Wilderness Medicine Society to award outstanding members of the wilderness medicine community - July 27, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will present awards to outstanding members of the wilderness medicine community at this year's upcoming Wilderness Medical Society 28th Wilderness Medicine Scientific Conference & Annual Meeting. The event will take place in Snowmass, CO, from July 29- August… Read More
