Elsevier unveils optimised mobile version of ScienceDirect - May 14, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of an optimised mobile version of ScienceDirect, its leading full-text scientific database. The updated mobile version of ScienceDirect now allows researchers to read journal articles on mobile devices through a specifically designed interface offering high readability and a… Read More
Thomson CompuMark report identifies China as global brand leader among emerging nations - May 13, 2014
Thomson Reuters CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business and global leader in trademark searching and brand protection solutions, has released a new report according to which Chinese brands are expanding internationally at a rapidly-growing pace. The new report, Read More
SPARC announces ‘Generation Open’ as theme for 2014 International Open Access Week - May 9, 2014
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that the theme for this year's International Open Access Week is "Generation Open". The theme will highlight the importance of students and early career researchers as advocates for change in the short-term, through institutional and governmental… Read More
Cengage Learning partners with Celebrus Technologies to harness the power of big data in education technology - May 9, 2014
Cengage Learning, a global educational content, technology and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets, has announced a partnership with Celebrus Technologies, a provider of tagging-free multi-channel digital big data software that captures rich behavioural data to understand how customers are… Read More
SAGE launches SAGE Research Methods Cases, an online collection of applied research methods cases - May 8, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of SAGE Research Methods Cases, a collection of real social research case studies, specially commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice. SAGE Research Methods Cases was developed for use in a college or… Read More
More than a third of contributors in Books In Print have an ISNI, reveals new Bowker analysis - May 8, 2014
A new analysis of Bowker® Books In Print shows that a full 33 percent of its contributors have the ISO-certified International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) connected with their names and in use in the database. ISNI was created just over two years ago and has topped… Read More
