UK e-books sales rising but sales values falling, says Books & Consumers survey - February 15, 2012
E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume, according to the latest Books & Consumers survey. With the lower price points of e-books versus their print counterparts, the value of book sales is shrinking, the report further says. The survey is an… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health releases Facts & Comparisons eAnswers Mobile for smartphone users - February 15, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has released Facts & Comparisons eAnswers Mobile to provide smartphone users with authoritative answers to drug information questions. The app, which combines industry leading content from Facts & Comparisons eAnswers and Lexicomp, is available for iPhone and… Read More
Elsevier’s new expert discovery application enables collaboration by connecting SciVerse Hub to DIRECT2Experts - February 15, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of an expert identification and discovery application that connects SciVerse Hub, a platform for search, analysis and research synthesis, with the DIRECT2Experts online network of scientific researchers. The Direct2Experts Expert Discovery Application enables researchers to find potential collaborators… Read More
Presenters at Lithuanian event examine importance of unique author identifiers - February 15, 2012
The Association of Lithuanian Serials, an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) participant, hosted a conference on unique author identifiers on February 14, 2012, in Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference took place in the Lithuanian parliament (seimas). Three members of ORCID working groups presented at the conference,… Read More
ICIS China Urea report offers in-depth market intelligence on China’s urea production and exports - February 14, 2012
Global petrochemicals and energy information provider ICIS has launched the weekly ICIS China Urea report that offers timely and in-depth market intelligence on China's urea production and exports. It provides domestic supply and demand data, analysis on China's trade activities and Chinese urea export price assessments,… Read More
BioData adds 20 Nature Protocols to Labguru web service and iPad app - February 14, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and BioData Ltd., an Israel-based provider of digital tools for laboratories, have announced the integration of 20 high-quality protocols from Nature Protocols into BioData’s Labguru web service and iPad app. Taken from Nature Protocols’ database of protocols for common… Read More
