Emerald Group Publishing and ISTEX sign French national license agreement - December 17, 2015
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has signed a major agreement with the French national licensing programme, ISTEX, to make key academic resources available to the French research community. The agreement will include digitised articles from 316 journals - 142 of which are ranked in Thomson… Read More
NLM Value Set Authority Center launches the VSAC Collaboration Tool - December 17, 2015
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) has launched VSAC Collaboration – a tool to support communication, knowledge management and document management by value set authors and stewards. VSAC Collaboration provides a central site where value set authors can post value… Read More
ProQuest completes acquisition of Ex Libris - December 16, 2015
ProQuest, an information solutions provider central to global research, has completed its acquisition of Ex Libris Group, a global provider of cloud‑based solutions for higher education. The businesses' complementary assets are being integrated, enabling existing services to be enhanced and sparking the… Read More
SAGE and Expert System release SAGE Recommends, allows semantic exploration of scholarly content across diverse formats and disciplines - December 16, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE and Expert System have announced the release of SAGE Recommends, a new discovery capability within the SAGE Knowledge platform that provides users with links to related SAGE content to support academic research. Powered by Luxid® software, the feature uses… Read More
IEEE signs letter of intent with World Intellectual Property Organization - December 16, 2015
IEEE, a professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has signed a letter of intent with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialised agency of the United Nations and global, intergovernmental forum for intellectual property (IP) policy, services, information and cooperation. Through the… Read More
Karger Publishers selects Imperva Incapsula to defend against DDoS attacks - December 16, 2015
Cyber security solutions provider Imperva, Inc. has announced that Karger Publishers, a global medical and scientific publishing company, has selected Imperva Incapsula. The company will use the Incapsula service to ensure that its website, containing approximately 100 new scientific journals per year and a vast e-book… Read More
