ProQuest releases new collection in Periodicals Archive Online, makes essential journals easy to access - October 5, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has released the 10th collection in its widely-used Periodicals Archive Online, continuing its mission of making hard-to-find journals accessible to the world's researchers. A landmark electronic trove of more than 700 digitised, fully searchable journal archives, Periodicals Archive… Read More
WK Health and Joanna Briggs Institute expand partnership to provide full suite of JBI resources on OvidSP - October 5, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced an expanded partnership with the University of Adelaide's Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). JBI is an international producer of evidence-based practice (EBP) resources and tools. Ovid, part of WK Health, will be the exclusive channel… Read More
NFAIS to host webinar on usage of linked data - October 5, 2012
The US' National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90 minute webinar on October 25, 2012 to provide an overview of how linked data can be used to the benefit of the entire information community - content providers, librarians, and users. Bradley Allen,… Read More
SAE International to host symposium on Augmented/Virtual Reality Technologies - October 5, 2012
Engineers and technical experts association SAE International will host a new symposium – the 'SAE 2012 Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Technologies Symposium' – that focuses on the technical, economic and implementation aspects of AR and VR. This is the first event of its kind to… Read More
CDL, partners launch free data management tool, DataUp - October 3, 2012
The University of California's Digital Library (CDL) and its partners have launched DataUp, a free data management tool. Researchers trying to meet their data management requirements from funders, journals and their own institutions can now reportedly use the DataUp Web application and a Microsoft Excel add-in… Read More
Open Access initiative SCOAP3 launched at CERN - October 2, 2012
Representatives from the science funding agencies and library communities of 29 countries met at CERN on October 1, 2012, to launch the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, claims to be world's leading laboratory for particle physics.… Read More
