Elsevier Australia launches new medical app – Clinical Herbs - May 28, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier Australia recently launched Clinical Herbs - a new medical app for local students and practitioners alike. Offering an alternative to bulky textbooks, the Clinical Herbs app delivers a comprehensive herbal database directly to the user's iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Clinical Herbs claims… Read More
Tools to assess research impact at the article level gaining ground - May 28, 2012
The impact of academic research has long been measured using citations, often with the Journal Impact Factor being used to assess individual publications within it, it has been observed. However, the Impact Factor is a journal level - not an article level - metric and, as academic publishing and the… Read More
Accelrys launches trial of Contur ELN with UK university scientists - May 25, 2012
Accelrys, Inc., a US-based scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, has announced that it is enabling up to 400 scientists at 16 UK universities to evaluate the Contur Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN). Projected as a low-cost, easy-to-deploy and use ELN, the tool is offered by… Read More
BA Insight ties up with MuseGlobal to expand offerings via TotalView Applications - May 25, 2012
BA Insight, a US-based provider of integrated search technologies and search-based applications, has announced a partnership with metasearch technology provider MuseGlobal, Inc., US. As a result of the partnership, BA Insight has expanded the number of content sources it can securely integrate into its TotalView Applications.… Read More
Thieme releases Thieme Bookshelf app - May 25, 2012
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has released Thieme Bookshelf, the free companion app to Thieme's English language E-Book Store (ebookstore.thieme.com). The E-Book Store allows customers to choose from among hundreds of e-books offering the latest medical content. The bookshelf enables customers to easily browse… Read More
Digital media is preferred studying mode for college students, says CourseSmart survey - May 24, 2012
Digital course materials supplier CourseSmart LLC, US, has announced the results of a survey revealing college students' growing reliance on technology. The survey of more than 500 currently enrolled college students found that nearly all college students (98 percent) who own a device have used it… Read More
