EBSCO in deal with Elsevier to enhance e-book medical collection available via eBooks on EBSCOhost - July 19, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with STM publisher Elsevier to significantly enhance the e-book medical collection available through eBooks on EBSCOhost. The agreement adds 965 health science titles to EBSCO’s medical e-book collection with over 580 of the titles… Read More
RSC announces £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin transition to Gold OA - July 19, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to Gold Open Access (OA). 'Gold for Gold' is an innovative experiment to support the funder led evolution to Gold OA, by recognising institutes that… Read More
Elsevier announces participation in SCOAP3 with journals Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B - July 19, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), a new model for open access publishing. Key SCOAP3 principles are perpetual open access, wide re-use licenses, and reduction and re-direction of subscription fees to centrally cover… Read More
Knovel and American Society of Civil Engineers announce publishing partnership - July 18, 2012
Knovel, provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) have announced a new publishing partnership. The deal is projected to expand the ASCE publication footprint globally and offer Knovel customers a richer content… Read More
Syndetics ICE data to enhance search experience of Primo users at Cardiff University in Wales - July 18, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Cardiff University in Wales has added the Syndetics ICE (Indexed Content Enrichment) service to the University’s LibrarySearch installation of the Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution. Syndetics ICE adds tables of contents, summaries, and… Read More
Scope unveils the latest version of ConSCIse™, its unique content abstraction solution - July 17, 2012
Knowledge services company Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope) has announced the launch of Version 1.3 of its unique ConSCIse solution for generating abstracts and keywords for scholarly literature such as books, book chapters, journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, clinical summaries and other documents. ConSCIse automatically extracts… Read More
