Scientific American introduces new free mobile offerings - December 9, 2011
Science magazine Scientific American is working with Google to feature content in Google Currents, a new Reader App for smartphones and tablets. Google Currents will include Scientific American's Science Agenda and top news sections and a sampling of posts from the Scientific American blog network. In… Read More
ARL publishes SPEC Kit 326, focuses on digital humanities - December 7, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Digital Humanities, SPEC Kit 326, which provides a snapshot of research library experiences with digital scholarship centers or services that support the humanities and the benefits and challenges of hosting them. The survey asked ARL libraries about… Read More
Elsevier launches Procedures Consult app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch - December 6, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its new Procedures Consult App for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch is now available on the App Store. The app allows for procedure videos, illustrations and text to be stored on a user's iOS device with customised user interfaces.… Read More
German publishers, authors participate in Spanish book fair in Mexico - December 6, 2011
Germany reportedly celebrated success as the guest of honour at the 25th Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in Mexico. The Spanish-language book fair was attended by more than 650,000 visitors and 1,935 publishers from 43 countries, including Spain, the US and France. About 2,500 visitors… Read More
Citation rate for Chinese science papers goes up, says report - December 5, 2011
The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China recently released its annual report, ‘Statistical Data of Chinese (Science & Technology) Papers 2011’. According to the report, about one-tenth of the science and technology papers included in the Science Citation Index came from China in 2010.… Read More
SPARC and ACRL to co-host panel discussion on getting the rights right - December 5, 2011
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) will co-host a timely panel discussion on ‘Getting the rights right for the future of scholarly communication’ at the upcoming meeting of the American Library… Read More
