Jisc in deal with scientific journal publishers to provide free trial access to medical and scientific journals - May 2, 2014
Jisc has announced an agreement with scientific journal publishers. A year-long pilot will allow staff working across the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free trial access to some of the most respected medical and scientific journals so they can read for themselves the… Read More
World Health Organization joins Europe PubMed Central - May 2, 2014
The World Health Organization (WHO) will become a member of the open access repository Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC), joining 25 other life sciences and biomedical research funders. The announcement is in preparation for the launch of the WHO open access policy… Read More
Gale’s new InterLink technology enables users to make real-world discoveries - May 2, 2014
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has announced the launch of InterLink, a new technology that connects current articles from newspapers, magazines and journals with contextual reference content found within e-books on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), Gale's e-book platform. InterLink document-level hyperlinking is available free… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry responds to Pfizer’s proposed takeover of AstraZeneca - May 2, 2014
The Royal Society of Chemistry together with members of the Drug Discovery Pathways Group - Society of Biology, Biochemical Society and British Pharmacological Society –has issued a statement in response to news of a possible takeover of UK pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca by Pfizer. According to… Read More
New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation selects UpToDate Anywhere for mobile-enabled clinical decision support - May 1, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, have announced that New York Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) has chosen UpToDate® Anywhere, its mobile-enabled clinical decision support resource. The five-year contract provides HHC clinicians with anytime/anywhere access… Read More
Academic institutions in Korea now have full-text access to ProQuest’s Periodicals Archive Online - May 1, 2014
Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a consortium with 300 members, has expanded its holdings of scholarly periodicals from ProQuest. Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers to a rich digital archive of leading historical periodicals, spanning more than two centuries of scholarship in the humanities and… Read More
