OCLC and Credo Reference extend partnership to add local library materials in WorldCat to Credo Topic Pages - April 20, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and reference databases provider Credo Reference, US, have announced a special collaboration project aimed to increase collection visibility and usage with library users. Credo Topic Pages will now be enhanced with WorldCat results to show local library materials alongside other timely,… Read More
Nature Publishing Group announces mobile-optimisation for its journals on nature.com - April 19, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced mobile-optimisation for a number of its journals on nature.com. Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports now offer complete mobile-optimised versions of their websites, designed for use in web browsers on 'small screen' devices like… Read More
MetaPress announces three new levels of service for publishers - April 18, 2012
MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced three targeted product offerings to meet the needs of publishers, regardless of size. The three levels of service - Tailor-Made, Standard, and Essential - target the particular needs of large and small publishers. … Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe offers Chinese patent information on STN - April 18, 2012
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, is offering the Chinese full-text patent file CNFULL on online science and patent information service STN. This is projected to enable researchers and patent specialists to broaden their complex patent searches to Chinese patent full-texts in order to determine patentability, state of the… Read More
Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online now available at academic institutions worldwide - April 18, 2012
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the availability of the Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a multi-year global digitisation and publishing programme. Nineteenth Century Collections Online brings together rare primary source materials – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs and more –… Read More
Elsevier and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press collaborate to publish Collected Works of H.S. Tsien - April 17, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of the Collected Works of H.S. Tsien (1938-1956) in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press (SJTUP). Tsien, considered by many to be the greatest Chinese scientist of the past 60 years, began his research in aerodynamics while… Read More
