Global Nature Publishing Index 2012 supplement released, United States continues to dominate world science - June 21, 2013
The United States remains the superpower of science, dominating a ranking of the world's top 200 institutions in 2012, published in the first Nature Publishing Index (NPI) Global supplement. The UK, Germany and Japan make up a solid top four countries in terms of high quality… Read More
IOP Publishing journals show Impact Factor growth for ninth consecutive year - June 21, 2013
IOP Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, has announced that the 2012 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, show growth for many of its journals for the ninth consecutive year. This year, 33 of the titles published by IOP have seen… Read More
Serials Solutions to index metadata from 8,000 ibooks.ru e-book titles - June 20, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is working with the ibooks.ru to index metadata from 8,000 e-book titles covering educational, scientific and business topics. ibooks.ru is an e-library project founded in 2009 by leading Russian publishing houses Piter Publishing House and BHV-Petersburg in… Read More
The British Library and Portico partner to preserve thousands of e-journals for future generations - June 20, 2013
The British Library and digital preservation specialist Portico have announced that they will be working together to ensure that thousands of electronic journal titles will be collected, preserved and made available to current and future generations of researchers. The partnership will help the British Library… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health announces suite of local-language search and navigation capabilities for UpToDate - June 20, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the launch of Search in Your Own Language, a suite of local-language search and navigation capabilities for UpToDate, an evidence-based, clinical decision support resource. Search in Your Own Language enables clinicians and healthcare enterprises around the world… Read More
Liverpool University Press to make scholarly monograph content available via OUP’s UPSO platform - June 20, 2013
Liverpool University Press has announced a partnership with the Oxford University Press to launch Liverpool Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform, taking advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with cutting edge search and discovery functionality. Liverpool… Read More