Five major research centres to make data more accessible through British Library’s DataCite service - October 31, 2012
British Library, the national library of the UK, has announced that five major research centres have expanded their commitment to make data more accessible through its DataCite service, a global initiative which addresses the problem of how to find, access and re-use the results of research.… Read More
ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication announce facilitators for Scholarly Communication Workshop on Strategic Skills for Success - October 31, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication will conduct a workshop ‘Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Scholarly Communication Program: Strategic Skills for Success’ to be held April 9–10, 2013, in Indianapolis, Indiana. On April 9, during a highly interactive… Read More
Serials Solutions Summon Service expands Japanese-language content with Japan Medical Abstracts Society - October 30, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) have improved access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata from the JAMAS abstracting and indexing database for more than 5,800 journals covering medicine, dentistry… Read More
NFAIS to hold two workshops on indexing and indices - October 29, 2012
The US' National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that it will hold two workshops on indexing and indices in the coming months. The first workshop will focus on the approaches to indexing that are currently in use, their pros and cons, and possible… Read More
BioMed Central to celebrate Open Access Week 2012 via activities across the globe - October 22, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central has announced that, as the official sponsor of Open Access Week 2012, it is participating in various activities around the globe for the event. Open Access Week, organised by SPARC, is now entering its sixth year. It is projected as… Read More
Pharmacy OneSource to host free webinar on value based-purchasing and readmissions reduction - October 22, 2012
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Pharmacy OneSource, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, is hosting a complimentary webinar with Steve Riddle, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP on 'An Update on Medicare's Value-based Purchasing and Readmissions Reduction Programs: Positioning Pharmacy as Team Leaders.' The webinar is scheduled for October 31,… Read More
