SPARC and the World Bank to co-sponsor Open Access Week 2013 kick-off event - July 26, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the World Bank will co-sponsor the kick-off event for Open Access Week 2013 on October 21 in Washington, DC. The live event will take place at the World Bank facilities and will host a liveblog and webcast… Read More
CCC announces winners of Conference Scholarship Program for Academic Librarians - July 26, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced the winners of its Conference Scholarship Program for Academic Librarians. Each of the winners received a travel stipend of $1,500 to attend the American Library Association Annual Conference recently held in Chicago. CCC is… Read More
NPG and BioCentury announce second annual SciBX Summit on Innovation in Drug Discovery & Development - July 25, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and BioCentury Publications, Inc., a source of biopharma business intelligence, have announced the second annual SciBX Summit on Innovation in Drug Discovery & Development. The Summit will be held October 29-30 in Boston, MA, at the Colonnade Hotel Boston.… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces new content milestones for its Cortellis platform - July 25, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a series of industry-first milestones in its Cortellis platform. Cortellis, the premier source of life sciences competitive intelligence information and analytics, has reached new content milestones with more than 50,000 investigational drugs, 400,000 bioactive compounds, and… Read More
EBSCO and BiblioLabs sign agreement to include metadata in EBSCO Discovery Service - July 25, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced an agreement with BiblioLabs. The deal will make possible for more people to access high quality, historical content and enable libraries, museums and other institutions to make digital content from their internal repositories available to others. Metadata… Read More
IOP Publishing presents new e-books programme for the first time in Latin America - July 25, 2013
IOP Publishing (IOP), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, presented its new ebooks programme for the first time in Latin America, showcasing unique features and benefits to librarians and scientists and encouraging regional authors to submit their own book ideas. During the… Read More
