British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery launches new knowledge hub for orthopaedic community - February 2, 2012
The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery has launched an online initiative for the orthopaedic community - Bone & Joint. The new online knowledge hub is developed in partnership with HighWire Press. It will offer orthopaedic surgeons and researchers access to a range… Read More
National Library of Japan opts for Ex Libris’ Aleph integrated library system - February 1, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the National Diet Library (NDL) - the national library of Japan - completed its transition from its legacy system to the Aleph integrated library system and switched to full production in early January. The… Read More
OCLC and Elsevier in deal to provide full-text searching of SciVerse ScienceDirect journals and e-books via WorldCat Local - February 1, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and STM publisher Elsevier have signed an agreement that will make the full text from Elsevier’s SciVerse ScienceDirect journals and e-books available to users of OCLC’s WorldCat Local. The expanded partnership makes it possible for researchers… Read More
Laerdal Medical and Wolters Kluwer Health partnership integrates EHR Tools and Health Curriculum with Simulated Learning - January 31, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, and Laerdal Medical have announced a product and distribution alliance. The 'Learning for Saving Lives' alliance will initially target undergraduate programmes of nursing, medicine and the health professions, and will seamlessly integrate curriculum offerings from Lippincott Williams… Read More
McGraw-Hill announces enhancements to engineering platform AccessEngineering - January 31, 2012
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced enhancements to AccessEngineering platform, featuring technological and user interface improvements. Redesigned to meet the needs of engineering professionals, students and faculty, the online reference features a completely new user interface. The aim is to… Read More
Faculty of 1000 launches OA publishing programme, F1000 Research - January 31, 2012
Article evaluation services provider Faculty of 1000 (F1000), UK, has announced the launch of F1000 Research, a new fully open access (OA) publishing programme across biology and medicine. Scheduled for launch later this year, F1000 Research is intended to address the major issues afflicting scientific publishing… Read More
