Thomson Reuters selected by 4 organisations for data analysis and management - March 13, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has been selected by four organisations to provide essential data and insight into their ground-breaking scientific initiatives. The organisations include Alzheimer's Research UK, the Institute of Physics, the National Institutes of Health… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Accessible Archives expand partnership - March 13, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has expanded its partnership with Accessible Archives, Inc. to include American County Histories to 1900: New England and The Civil War: Parts V and IV in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement allows metadata from these two resources… Read More
Ben-Gurion University to contribute to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database - March 13, 2012
Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has joined the thousands of research institutions worldwide that contribute to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database (PQDT), a commercially available repository of graduate works. Through PQDT, a worldwide network of scholars can expect to discover BGU's doctoral… Read More
Gale unveils DemographicsNow: Business & People - March 13, 2012
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced DemographicsNow: Business & People, an online business and residential reference tool that provides detailed demographic data on more than 23 million businesses and 206 million consumers.… Read More
EBSCO adds Occupational Health Content to ExPub database - March 12, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced a new agreement to add Haz-Map to its ExPub database. Haz-Map is designed to assist professionals seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biological agents in the workplace. Haz-Map references hundreds… Read More
Google reportedly scaling back books digitisation project - March 12, 2012
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, as observed by librarians involved with the digitisation project. However, it remains unclear what this would mean for the company's long-term investment in the Google Books project. Google has… Read More
