European Commission launches open data portal in public beta - December 24, 2012
The European Commission has launched its open data portal, announced last year December, in public beta. While the site is already on-line, the EC has requested to not widely circulate the URL yet. The beta launch will be more widely announced in January 2013. At… Read More
Association of Research Libraries releases second report in the New Roles for New Times series - December 21, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Research Library Services for Graduate Students (PDF), the second report in the New Roles for New Times series. This series highlights the transformation of the library workforce to address new challenges for research libraries in serving 21st-century students,… Read More
Springer and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan partner to launch new book series, NIMS Monographs - December 20, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan will partner to publish a new book series NIMS Monographs. The series will publish titles on major and advanced research themes of the research institute, one of the most important in materials sciences… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and INTELECOM partnership brings core academic video collections to EBSCOhost - December 19, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that online academic video collections from INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications (INTELECOM) will be available from EBSCO. The agreement will give users access to INTELECOM’s library of core curriculum video collections through EBSCOhost, while other videos will be… Read More
Lexicomp updates Black Box Warnings component of Lexi-Data - December 18, 2012
Healthcare information service provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Lexicomp, a part of WK Health, has updated the Black Box Warnings component of Lexi-Data, providing clinicians with user-level categorised alert messages that contain actionable information pertaining specifically to that user type. … Read More
Thomson Reuters re-launches ScienceWatch.com - December 14, 2012
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the re-launch of ScienceWatch.com, an open, web-based resource dedicated to scientific metrics and research performance analysis. Since 1989, ScienceWatch has provided the scientific community and media professionals with data and commentary on the people, places and… Read More
