AIP emphasises commitment to deliver world-class content - July 16, 2012
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has reinforced its commitment to deliver world-class content, accessibility and outreach. It has stated that it recognises that the STM publishing landscape is evolving due to scientists' changing information needs, technological advancements and emerging trends. These… Read More
ebrary adds thousands of titles to Government Complete - July 16, 2012
ebrary, a ProQuest business, has added thousands of relevant e-books across acquisition models, which provide libraries with the highest return on investment when combined. With this initiative, the company seeks to help government libraries acquire e-books more strategically. Diversifying acquisition models is a key component of… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 16, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Mike Shatzkin (Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject); Stevan Harnad (Overselling the Importance and Urgency of CC-BY for Peer-Reviewed Scholarly and Scientific Research); Mark Carrigan (Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the… Read More
European Research Council joins UK PubMed Central - July 16, 2012
The European Research Council (ERC), one of Europe’s biggest funders of scientific research, has announced that it will be joining UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), the online information service which provides biomedical and health researchers free access to millions of resources at the touch of a button.… Read More
EBSCO Publishing’s DynaMed chosen as primary point of care resource for NHS Scotland’s Knowledge Network - July 13, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that NHS Education for Scotland has selected DynaMed as its preferred point of care resource for all NHS Scotland staff and students. NHS Education’s Knowledge Network had offered DynaMed, as well as other point of… Read More
ACM journal articles now available from British Library’s Document Supply service - July 13, 2012
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an educational and scientific computing society, has announced that the latest articles from ACM are now available from the British Library’s Document Supply service. ACM delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession with leading-edge publications, conferences,… Read More
