Serials Solutions Summon Service expands Japanese-language content with Japan Medical Abstracts Society - October 30, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) have improved access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata from the JAMAS abstracting and indexing database for more than 5,800 journals covering medicine, dentistry… Read More
IOP Publishing launches article level metrics on its journal platform IOPscience - October 30, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced the launch of article level metrics on its journal platform IOPscience. Article level metrics are increasingly being used by authors and readers to view the wider impact of an article beyond traditional citations. The… Read More
ProQuest and ACRL call for applications for ProQuest Support Staff Scholarships - October 30, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) are calling for applicants for the ProQuest Support Staff Scholarships that will send eight library professionals to the 2013 ACRL Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10-13, 2013. The scholarships are… Read More
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal announce two publishing initiatives to expand reach - October 30, 2012
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), has announced two publishing initiatives that will expand the reach of PRS to the international plastic surgery community. The initiatives are: a publishing partnership between PRS… Read More
NFAIS to hold two workshops on indexing and indices - October 29, 2012
The US' National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that it will hold two workshops on indexing and indices in the coming months. The first workshop will focus on the approaches to indexing that are currently in use, their pros and cons, and possible… Read More
British Ecological Society and Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and Evolution announce partnership - October 29, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership between the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and Evolution. This latest partnership brings the number of high profile journals supporting the open access title to 16. Eleven of… Read More
