University of California Libraries awarded Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to continue development of Western Regional Storage Trust - October 22, 2013
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of California Libraries a three-year grant to continue development of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a distributed shared print repository program for retrospective journal archives. More than 100 libraries participate in the trust, including libraries from… Read More
Penton Aviation forms Business Aviation Market Group - October 22, 2013
Penton's Aviation Group, the multimedia information and services provider for the global aviation, aerospace and defence industries has announced the formation of the Penton Business Aviation Market Group. The announcement was made at the 2013 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA2013). According to Warren… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces addition of Clinical Trials Intelligence to the Cortellis suite - October 21, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the addition of Clinical Trials Intelligence to the Thomson Reuters CortellisTM suite, a comprehensive information solution for drug discovery and development. The Thomson Reuters Life Sciences team has invested significantly in Cortellis, creating a unique… Read More
Elsevier announces official collaboration with the National Natural Science Foundation of China - October 21, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its official collaboration with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the central governing body for science and technology funding in China. With an official memorandum of understanding (MoU) in place, Elsevier will undertake… Read More
BioMed Central announces various events to mark 6th year of Open Access Week - October 21, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced various events to mark the 6th year of Open Access Week, which begins today (October 21). Open Access Week is a global event to increase awareness of the benefits of open access publishing, and give people the opportunity to… Read More
New SPIE open access publishing program wins strong participation - October 21, 2013
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that an author-choice open access publishing program for journals, launched earlier this year, is gaining strong participation from authors and increasing the volume of freely accessible, peer-reviewed optics and photonics research literature as a result. … Read More