ebrary unveils German language e-book database covering multiple disciplines - March 13, 2013
ebrary, a ProQuest business, has announced a new German-language e-book subscription database for academic libraries. The ebrary Deutsche Sammlung collection includes STM, humanities and arts disciplines. It features more than 4,500 titles from publishers such as De Gruyter, Aarhus University Press, International Monetary Fund, Ohne Verlag… Read More
Wiley, OpenStax College team up to create product for college biology - March 13, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with Rice University-based OpenStax College, which is considered a newcomer from the 'open education resources' (OER) movement. The partnership calls for Wiley to deliver content from OpenStax College's two new biology textbooks via WileyPLUS with… Read More
EBSCO Publishing launches Arabic language full text database – Arab e-Marefa - March 13, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has released Arab e-Marefa, an Arabic language full text database that offers hundreds of journals published by many of the Arab world's prestigious academic publishers. Arab e-Marefa is produced by Marefa World Company for Digital Content in Jordan.… Read More
DWPI anniversary marks addition of 50th data source - March 12, 2013
The Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the 50th anniversary of Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), its flagship, proprietary database that is the world's most trusted source of patent information. This announcement marks the start of a year long celebration in… Read More
Elsevier and Hacettepe University to host event on research performance and evaluation in Turkey - March 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the meeting: Turkey and Turkish University's Research Outputs in the Context of International Trends in Science and Collaboration Opportunities, which will take place on 12 March at the Congress Center of Hacettepe University, Sihhiye Campus in Ankara, Turkey. The meeting… Read More
Springer adds 28,000 German-language titles to Springer Book Archives - March 12, 2013
STM publisher Springer is providing online access to its historic German-language titles in addition to those in English, adding another 28,000 eBooks to the Springer Book Archives (SBA). These books are part of the SBA project in which books dating right back to 1842 – when… Read More
