Japan remains major scientific power in Asia-Pacific - March 28, 2014
Japan remains the major scientific power in Asia-Pacific, despite China nipping at its heels. This is according to the Nature Publishing Index (NPI) 2013 Asia-Pacific published as a supplement to Nature. Japan, which is overcoming the impacts of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, with… Read More
Ten institutions from the Netherlands and Switzerland join Portico - March 28, 2014
Portico, a digital preservation service for electronic journals, books, and digitized historical collections, has announced that members of Netherland's SURFmarket and Switzerland's Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries have joined Portico. With the addition of these institutions, more than half of Portico's library participants are now located… Read More
Spain’s Health Ministry launches UpToDate clinical decision support for doctors nationwide - March 28, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Spain's Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has launched UpToDate, providing more than 260,000 healthcare professionals in the Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS), Spain's national health system, with access to its clinical decision support resource.… Read More
Scopus launches Cited References Expansion Program for archival content - March 28, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus has launched its Cited References Expansion Program to include cited references in its database going back to 1970 for pre-1996 content. In addition to increasing the depth of Scopus' scholarly content, including cited references for pre-1996 content will… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases analysis of global trademark trends in its third-annual State of Trademarks Report: Global Insights on Trademark Trends - March 28, 2014
Thomson Reuters CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business, has released its analysis of global trademark trends in its third-annual State of Trademarks Report: Global Insights on Trademark Trends. The report tracks trademark activity across 186 countries, covering nearly 4-and-a-half-million marks published across… Read More
Document delivery performance bolstered with Reprints Desk’s completed CrossRef digital object identifier project - March 28, 2014
Reprints Desk, Inc. has announced the completion of an information systems and technology project for assimilating more than 40 million digital object identifiers (DOIs) from CrossRef Metadata Services into the content transaction engine that powers the company's Article Galaxy document delivery management system. CrossRef assigns… Read More
