Serials Solutions and Hyweb Technology agreement enables discovery of Taiwanese journal content - October 12, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has signed an agreement with Hyweb Technology to enable the discovery of its Chinese journal content from the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata for Hyweb's more than 900 journals represents 90 percent of Taiwanese journals published. Researchers will… Read More
Seminars for publishers organised on day three of Frankfurt Book Fair - October 12, 2012
The Frankfurt Book Fair featured some interesting seminars for publishers on the third day of the Fair. 'Marketing for publishers: Limited budget, big impact' was a three-hour intensive training session focusing on marketing strategies and creative concepts for small wallets. It was geared toward marketing,… Read More
Delegates invited to sign up for Online Information event - October 12, 2012
The Online Information 2012 Conference and Exhibition is to be held at the Victoria Park Plaza, London from November 20-21. Since passes are selling out, delegates have been advised to sign up for the conference. This limited availability has come about since Online Information reported a… Read More
Serials Solutions to index Scopus in Summon Discovery Service - October 11, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it will index content in Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, and expose its widely-used citation counts in the Summon discovery service. Serials Solutions' pioneering approach to displaying citation counts in Summon search results – along… Read More
CERN to unveil educational resources tie-up with Rovio at Frankfurt fair - October 11, 2012
CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, is showcasing its science at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Apart from a range of books looking at the science of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Laboratory will unveil a new interactive LHC time tunnel display. CERN… Read More
Digital content, eBooks continue to be ‘hot topics’ on day two at Frankfurt Book Fair - October 11, 2012
Digital content, eBooks and related topics continued to be 'hot topics' at the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair on day two. Some of the discussions focused on the education market. Expresso Education's presentation 'Feeding the digital appetite of today's learners' offered insights about how topical, real-world… Read More
