Indiana University selected as a partner institution in new data curation fellowship programme - April 26, 2012
Researchers are creating and using scientific data at unprecedented levels, underscoring the need for curators, or caretakers, to ensure that this massive amount of vital information is being maintained for important research. To help meet this need, Indiana University, through a joint effort between its Data… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe’s Inorganic Crystal Structure Database expands offer of evaluated records - April 25, 2012
The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), which claims to be the world's largest database of fully determined inorganic crystal structures, now offers more than 150,000 evaluated records. The database is produced by FIZ Karlsruhe in Germany and the National Institute for Standards and Technology in the… Read More
Thomson Reuters launches new oncology application for tablet devices for R&D Pharmaceutical leaders - April 25, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters has announced its commitment to support R&D pharmaceutical leaders with a new oncology application for mobile tablet devices, already in use by AstraZeneca executives. The rich visualisation dashboard leverages content from Thomson Reuters Cortellis, the company's flagship… Read More
More than 20,000 individual Springer titles now available on Apple’s iBookstore - April 24, 2012
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has announced one of the largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) book collections on the iBookstore with more than 20,000 individual Springer titles. Cornerstone works in disciplines like mathematics, medicine and engineering are now available, along with selections in other fields… Read More
CABI re-index improves searching and retrieval for database products - April 20, 2012
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that more than 9 million records on CAB Direct have been re-indexed to bring them into line with the controlled vocabulary of the updated 2011 CAB Thesaurus. This has standardised indexing and searching across all database records from 1910… Read More
OCLC and Credo Reference extend partnership to add local library materials in WorldCat to Credo Topic Pages - April 20, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and reference databases provider Credo Reference, US, have announced a special collaboration project aimed to increase collection visibility and usage with library users. Credo Topic Pages will now be enhanced with WorldCat results to show local library materials alongside other timely,… Read More
