TEMIS to assist Karger Publishers with content discoverability initiative - December 21, 2011
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced a new contract in STM publishing with Switzerland-based S. Karger AG, an academic publisher of scientific and medical journals and books. Karger has chosen to partner with TEMIS to provide the… Read More
Society for Exploration Geophysicists selects Atypon’s Literatum platform - December 21, 2011
Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) has selected the Literatum publishing platform to power the future of the SEG Digital Library. SEG is an applied geophysics organisation, having over 32,000… Read More
SIAM to preserve e-journals and e-books in the CLOCKSS Archive - December 21, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to preserve their eJournals and eBooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. In addition, SIAM has been… Read More
ExPub expands chemical hazard data collection, adds two new databases - December 21, 2011
Expert Publishing (ExPub), a division of EBSCO Publishing, has announced that it is expanding its collection of chemical hazard data with the addition of The Teratogen Information System (TERIS) and Shepard’s Catalog of Teratogenic Agents. ExPub is the provider of up-to-date, decision-support… Read More
Smartphones seen increasing the risk of health data breaches - December 20, 2011
The American Medical Association’s American Medical News has noted that the number of physicians using smartphones has reached a near-saturation point and, in parallel, the number of data breaches is going up. Recent reports by Manhattan Research have found more than 81 percent of physicians use… Read More
St. Petersburg State University gains access to Elsevier’s key information products and solutions - December 20, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a three-year agreement with St. Petersburg State University providing access to Elsevier’s SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, SciVal Spotlight and Reaxys. The SciVerse suite of search and discovery offerings provides the global research community access to a constantly expanding universe of… Read More