Knovel launches Mining Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy subject area - May 25, 2011
Engineering resources provider Knovel, US, has announced the launch of Mining Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy as a new subject. Knovel's Mining Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy subject area supports engineers involved in mining engineering, extractive metallurgy as well as affiliated engineers working in design and construction and… Read More
BNA and MLA partner with Ex Libris to boost discoverability of content through Primo Central - May 25, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the United States Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) and the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) have joined the rapidly expanding group of information providers that enable the Primo Central Index of scholarly content to… Read More
Elsevier and METI partner to integrate nursing education content and solutions with human patient simulators - May 24, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a partnership agreement with Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI), a manufacturer of medical simulation and healthcare learning technologies. The companies will collaborate to release a turn-key healthcare education product that combines Elsevier's nursing education content with METI's human patient simulators.… Read More
NLM releases digital versions of American medical books from 17th century onwards - May 24, 2011
The US' National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has released 'Medicine in the Americas', a digital resource encompassing over 300 early American printed books. The resource makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from… Read More
Reed Business Information launches new online destination for Australians looking for health information - May 23, 2011
B2B information provider Reed Business Information (RBI) has announced the launch of www.itsmyhealth.com.au, a new online destination for Australians looking for information about health and general wellbeing. Designed to meet the growing demand for reliable online health information, the website combines… Read More
Brazil’s Agricultural Research Corporation adds 470,000 records to WorldCat - May 23, 2011
Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that Brazil's Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa, has added more than 470,000 bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database. The database claims to be the world's largest online resource for finding information in libraries. Embrapa's collection,… Read More
