ECSSR titles to be available for purchase via the EBSCO eBooks platform - July 16, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) have partnered to make ECSSR titles more accessible for academic users as well as public library users looking for Arabic and English publications covering various political, economic, social and informational fields. The… Read More
Swets in deal to represent next generation clinical information solution – Read by QxMD Enterprise Edition - July 16, 2014
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced an agreement to represent the next generation clinical information solution, Read by QxMD Enterprise Edition. Read Enterprise Edition brings new power to medical facilities, enabling them to drive content to medical staff in order to improve quality of care… Read More
Elsevier publishes 20th edition of The Harriet Lane Handbook - July 15, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of the 20th edition of The Harriet Lane Handbook, the first medical reference book on paediatric diagnosis and therapy written by paediatric residents with guidance from faculty advisers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Since 1951, the… Read More
Lund University in Sweden in deal with EBSCO for subscription services besides databases and EBSCO Discovery Service - July 15, 2014
Lund University Library in Sweden and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have extended their collaboration following a recent tender for subscription services and the subsequent award of a contract to EBSCO. The two organisations have committed to work together for up to four… Read More
Thomson Reuters names the Netherlands as winner of the inaugural Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge - July 15, 2014
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has named the Netherlands as the winner of the inaugural Thomson Reuters Analytics World Challenge, a unique competition utilising indicators from InCites, the industry's leading research analytics platform, to measure the global impact of the scientific research… Read More
Libraries and archives leave international copyright discussions empty handed after countries fail to reach agreement again - July 15, 2014
Discussions regarding an international copyright instrument for libraries and archives again collapsed inconclusively at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, from June30 – July 4. In the early hours of July 5, Member States finally 'agreed to… Read More