Dr. Dan Vaughn named new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy - August 17, 2012
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced the appointment of Dr Dan Vaughn as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy (JMMT). Dr Vaughn will succeed Chad Cook, who has provided five years of service and strong leadership to the journal. Dan will work… Read More
Research institutions worldwide sign up for Swets and Mendeley’s research productivity, collaboration and analytics tool - August 17, 2012
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, and Mendeley, a UK-based startup, have announced that leading research universities and institutions around the world have signed up for the research productivity, collaboration and analytics tool developed by the companies. Mendeley Institutional Edition, the new tool for libraries from… Read More
ACS Publications and CAS jointly launch Reference QuickView - August 16, 2012
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications, US, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the information divisions of the ACS, has jointly announced the introduction of Reference QuickView. Reference QuickView is a new feature powered by CAS' SciFinder that enables readers of web content to view directly the text… Read More
Elsevier acquires Atira, deepens SciVal’s ability to help academic institutions manage and improve research outcomes - August 16, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Atira, a provider of software and tools that help academic institutions and researchers manage and improve their research outcomes. Atira complements Elsevier's SciVal by expanding the scope of data to report on research activities across an academic… Read More
OCLC publishes bibliographic linked data for most widely held works in WorldCat - August 16, 2012
OCLC, a US-based non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file - representing nearly 1.2 million resources - contains about 80 million linked data 'triples,' the term for the most… Read More
IEEE approves dozens of standards and standards-development activities - August 16, 2012
Professional association IEEE, US, has announced dozens of new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards-development projects. Among the new standards that have been published is IEEE 2200 – Standard Protocol for Stream Management in Media Client Devices. By defining interfaces for intelligently distributing and replicating… Read More
