OCLC announces enhancements to WorldCat Local - October 18, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced latest enhancements for WorldCat Local. This includes availability on brief results, Local Holdings Record searching, article links and branch information for mobile views and more. The latest additions to the popular discovery and delivery service now allow users… Read More
Simba Information launches Simba Information Knowledge Center - October 17, 2011
Media and publishing forecast firm Simba Information, US, has launched its new Simba Information Knowledge Center, an online platform that offers users easy access to an exhaustive collection of data and analysis covering the publishing market. The Knowledge Center provides information and marketing professionals with… Read More
Bowker adds content from Doody’s Book Reviews to Syndetics Solutions - October 14, 2011
Bibliographic information management solutions provider Bowker, US, has announced that Syndetics Solutions, its OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, is adding content from Doody's Book Reviews, a source of reviews of medical and healthcare works. Libraries who subscribe to Syndetics Solutions can add the reviews to… Read More
Impelsys announces latest version of iPublishCentral - October 13, 2011
Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced the release of iPublishCentral 3.2, a new version of its digital publishing software platform. The latest version features expanded support for delivering ebooks to mobile devices. iPublishCentral is a comprehensive platform that allows any organisation to… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils Infection Xpert to reduce hospital-acquired infections - October 12, 2011
Thomson Reuters, a US-based provider of information for healthcare professionals, has launched Infection Xpert, a clinical intelligence dashboard. The tool is designed to help infection preventionists (IPs) manage and reduce hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), capture and submit mandated infection reporting metrics, and analyse hospital infection data to… Read More
EBSCO Publishing acquires Ergonomics Abstracts from Taylor & Francis - October 12, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has acquired Ergonomics Abstracts from Taylor & Francis. The database is focused on ergonomics and human factors. Ergonomics Abstracts provides indexing for eBooks, journal articles and reference works in a variety of fields that will be of value… Read More
