Latest version of NCIP to support interoperability for resource sharing - August 24, 2012
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), US, has announced the publication of the two-part American National Standard on the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), ANSI/NISO Z39.83. NCIP addresses the need for interoperability among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing and self-service applications by standardising the exchange… Read More
RSI Content Solutions appoints David Saracco as VP, business development - August 24, 2012
RSI Content Solutions, a US-based provider of content management services, has announced the addition of David Saracco as vice president, business development to expand the RSuite CMS sales team and help further develop key publishing markets. Saracco brings more than 20 years’ experience having worked… Read More
Elsevier / Gold Standard revamp Drug Class Overviews to address changing needs of healthcare professionals - August 23, 2012
Drug information provider Elsevier / Gold Standard, US, has announced its new Drug Class Overviews, making Clinical Pharmacology more valuable at the point of care. Clinical Pharmacology Drug Class Overviews are now even more powerful for evaluating formulary decisions and therapeutic drug substitutions. Elsevier / Gold… Read More
E-Book user base expands to 24.5 percent of adult population, says Simba report - August 23, 2012
Media forecast and research firm Simba Information, US, has published an addendum to its recently released Trade E-Book Publishing 2012 report. In addition to showing an updated list of e-book hardware trends, the data indicates that about 24.5 percent of US adults consider themselves to be… Read More
Mendeley database handles over 100 million calls per month - August 23, 2012
UK-based start-up Mendeley has announced that the number of queries to its database from external applications has surpassed 100 million per month. More than 240 applications received for research collaboration, measurement, visualisation, semantic markup and discovery - all of which have been developed in the past… Read More
SPIE launches new open access programme for journals - August 23, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new programme that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons… Read More
