Scope’s ConSCIseTM platform crosses 5 million abstracts delivery - February 12, 2014
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has achieved yet another milestone delivering 5 million abstracts of patents, book chapters, technical articles, standards etc. in various languages for several global information providers. Scope, started its abstraction services… Read More
Knovel survey results indicate engineers struggle to find equations that fit a specific situation - February 12, 2014
Engineers conduct more searches for equations online, but they are dissatisfied with the results. This is according to a 2013 survey conducted on behalf of Knovel. A majority of engineers surveyed look for equations at least once a week, and increasingly they search via the Internet first, rather than references,… Read More
Richland Library in South Carolina implements EBSCO Discovery Service API - February 12, 2014
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that Richland Library in South Carolina has created a unique user experience for its library customers, with the help of EBSCO Discovery Service™ API (EDS API). By implementing EDS API, Richland Library was able to use their… Read More
American Medical Association partners with ACCUCOMS for shared representation in India - February 12, 2014
ACCUCOMS, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, and the American Medical Association (AMA) have announced a new sales representation agreement for the promotion of JAMA Network publications in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Under the deal, ACCUCOMS will… Read More
New Bangor University project to improve accountability in academic publishing - February 12, 2014
A new Bangor University project is set to launch at the ESAI Environ conference in Dublin on February 28, 2014. The project, called Journalysis, received generous funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) through the Management Centre last year. Journalysis aims to… Read More
Over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France gain access to ScienceDirect Freedom Collection - February 11, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Couperin Consortium have come to a new agreement that provides researchers at over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France access to the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection content for five years. ScienceDirect is Elsevier' full-text database of more than… Read More
