Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - January 10, 2011
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
ProQuest acquires ebrary - January 7, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced the acquisition of US-based digital content products and technologies provider, ebrary. The agreement will marry both companies' inventive, user-centric technologies and add a growing pool of a quarter-million e-books to ProQuest's monumental content… Read More
More Wiley-Blackwell journals and non-journal resources to be available through Research4Life in 2011 - January 7, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that an additional 88 journals and 24 non-journal resources will be available through the three United Nations sponsored Research4Life programmes - HINARI, AGORA, and OARE. These programmes provide developing countries… Read More
New report examines feasibility of outsourcing management operations for digitised books to shared service providers - January 7, 2011
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has released a new report titled, 'Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment'. This report presents findings from a year-long study designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University's Elmer Bobst Library, and the… Read More
Study linking vaccine to autism an ‘elaborate fraud’, say BMJ articles - January 7, 2011
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has reportedly published a series of articles that state that the retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an 'elaborate fraud' based on the 'falsification of data'. An investigation published by the journal concludes… Read More
Nature Publishing Group launches new open access publication – Scientific Reports - January 7, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of Scientific Reports, an online, open access, peer-reviewed publication. The journal is currently accepting submissions, and will publish its first articles in June 2011. Scientific Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences -… Read More
