NFAIS to host webinar on usage of linked data - October 5, 2012
The US' National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90 minute webinar on October 25, 2012 to provide an overview of how linked data can be used to the benefit of the entire information community - content providers, librarians, and users. Bradley Allen,… Read More
SAE International to host symposium on Augmented/Virtual Reality Technologies - October 5, 2012
Engineers and technical experts association SAE International will host a new symposium – the 'SAE 2012 Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Technologies Symposium' – that focuses on the technical, economic and implementation aspects of AR and VR. This is the first event of its kind to… Read More
Association of American Publishers and Google announce settlement agreement - October 5, 2012
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Internet search services provider Google have announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitised by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.… Read More
EBSCO, Elsevier agreement allows mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service - October 5, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced an agreement to allow mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Scopus is a bibliographic, abstract and citation database provided by Elsevier. The agreement… Read More
Amazon launches Cloud Drive in Italy and Spain - October 5, 2012
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced the launch of Amazon Cloud Drive in Italy and Spain, following recent launches in the UK, Germany and France. European customers can now securely store and access all of their digital files in the Amazon cloud using the… Read More
DynaMed ranks highest among ten online clinical resources in fourth independent report - October 4, 2012
DynaMed, a clinical reference tool designed for use primarily at the point of care, has ranked highest among ten online clinical resources in a new study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. The resources were evaluated in three areas - timeliness of content updating, breadth of… Read More
