Researchers from universities across Israel to benefit from CAS solutions - December 29, 2015
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society and world's authority for chemical information, and MALMAD consortium - Israeli Center for Digital Information Services have announced a five-year agreement to provide SciFinder® with PatentPak™ access to all universities in Israel. PatentPak, a robust… Read More
ARL releases Library Liaison report, spurs discussion of liaison roles - December 22, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries has released the final report of a pilot Library Liaison Institute organised by Columbia University Libraries, Cornell University Libraries, and the University of Toronto Libraries, and held at Cornell University in June 2015. Nearly 50 liaison librarians from the three Association… Read More
China’s high quality research output grew 37 percent from 2012 to 2014, reveals new analysis of Nature Index data - December 17, 2015
China's high quality research output grew 37% from 2012 to 2014, according to new analysis of Nature Index data. The United States saw a 4% drop over this period in the same Nature Index metric (weighted fractional count; WFC). The Nature Index 2015 China supplement,… Read More
Amphia Hospital in the Netherlands becomes first hospital in Europe to fully integrate UpToDate® Anywhere - December 15, 2015
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that the Amphia Hospital in the Netherlands is the first hospital in Europe to fully integrate UpToDate® Anywhere within the Epic electronic medical record… Read More
STM responds to the Max Planck Digital Library White Paper on the Open Access Transition - December 14, 2015
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the Max Planck DL (MPDL) paper on the transition to OA. STM welcomes this contribution to the open access debate and shares the belief that the most sustainable open access… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health launches UpToDate Anywhere in Italy - December 11, 2015
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer has announced the launch of UpToDate ® Anywhere in Italy. UpToDate Anywhere enables hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with mobile and EHR-based access to UpToDate, the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource. UpToDate Anywhere expands the availability of… Read More