Semantico develops global scholarly author registry – ORCID Registry - November 8, 2012
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced that the recently launched ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Registry was engineered by the company. ORCID recently launched its Registry, where researchers can differentiate themselves by creating a unique personal identifier. The… Read More
Thomson Reuters expands InCites platform, transforms scientific literature analysis - November 8, 2012
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters shared plans for the future of its InCites analytics platform at two recent user forums, in Europe and Australia, respectively. Attendees were the first to hear that InCites will become the main environment for all Thomson Reuters analytic… Read More
Elsevier launches new journal – The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - November 8, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal - The Journal of the Economics of Ageing (JEoA). JEoA is an international academic journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research on the interaction between demographic change and the economy. The journal… Read More
ProQuest expands full-text searching of ebrary titles in Summon Discovery service - November 8, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, is boosting the visibility of e-books in library collections by providing for the full text of an additional 400,000 e-books to be discovered and accessed as part of a broad search of library holdings. The initiative to improve… Read More
NPG expands Creative Commons Attribution license options - November 8, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has introduced the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license on its 19 NPG-owned academic journals. From December 2012, the CC BY license will be available to authors choosing open access publication options in these journals, in addition to the… Read More
Sixteen more libraries join OCLC WorldShare Management Services community - November 8, 2012
Library information provider OCLC, US, has announced that sixteen more libraries have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services. OCLC WorldShare Management Services claims to be the first cooperative, Webscale library management services that streamline cataloguing, acquisitions, circulation, license management and workflows with a powerful discovery and delivery… Read More
