Serials Solutions in deal with five German publishers to index their scholarly content in Summon discovery service - December 14, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that the company is working with several eminent German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon discovery service. This German-language content is among the most widely subscribed to by academic institutions in Germany, as well as… Read More
Thomson Reuters re-launches ScienceWatch.com - December 14, 2012
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the re-launch of ScienceWatch.com, an open, web-based resource dedicated to scientific metrics and research performance analysis. Since 1989, ScienceWatch has provided the scientific community and media professionals with data and commentary on the people, places and… Read More
UpToDate releases MobileComplete for Android users - December 14, 2012
Healthcare information service provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that UpToDate, part of WK Health, has released MobileComplete for Android users. A downloadable local version of its free app, UpToDate MobileComplete, is the fastest mobile version of UpToDate, providing clinicians with access to… Read More
ARL publishes Organization of Scholarly Communication Services, SPEC Kit 332 - December 14, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Organization of Scholarly Communication Services, SPEC Kit 332, which explores how research institutions are currently organising staff to support scholarly communication services, and whether their organisational structures have changed since 2007, when member libraries were surveyed about their… Read More
Version One of new STN available in beta for fixed fee customers - December 14, 2012
The STN partners - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe - have announced that Version One of the new STN platform is now available in beta for fixed fee customers. This is stated to be the first major milestone in a… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry acquires The Merck Index - December 14, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that The Merck Index will join the highly acclaimed publishing portfolio of the Society. In buying the rights to the iconic reference book, where generations of professionals look for comprehensive information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals, the RSC… Read More
