Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 18, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Whoops! Are Some Current Open Access Mandates Backfiring on the Intended Beneficiaries?); Joe Wikert (Used ebooks: Why your assumptions are wrong and the opportunity is huge); Heather Morrison (A problem with CC-BY: permitting downstream use with no strings… Read More
Thomson Innovation adds patent records from Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand - March 15, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the addition of English-translated patent records from Vietnam and Thailand, as well as Malaysian full-text patents, to Thomson Innovation, its patent intelligence and collaboration platform. The addition of these patent documents is seen to… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins content to be indexed in Serials Solutions’ Summon service - March 15, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, have announced that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) content available on the Ovid institutional research platform will be indexed in the Summon discovery service. Researchers will now be able to search the abstract… Read More
British National Formulary Information now available via DynaMed - March 15, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that clinicians in the UK can now access authoritative and trusted guidance on the selection and use of medicines from the British National Formulary (BNF) directly from DynaMed, an evidence-based clinical information resource. EBSCO announced that… Read More
RSC urges UK govt. to boost funding for research, ahead of next week’s budget - March 15, 2013
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has urged government to boost funding for science research ahead of next week's Budget. According to RSC, the UK has risked slipping into the margin of world competitiveness without further investment in science. The country's economic recovery is… Read More
ARL issues call for participation in the third Balanced Scorecard Initiative cohort - March 15, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has issued a call for participation in the third Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Initiative cohort. The year-long initiative will engage a small number of research libraries in a systematic way to consider the benefits of applying a locally developed library scorecard.… Read More
