Gale unveils DemographicsNow: Business & People - March 13, 2012
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced DemographicsNow: Business & People, an online business and residential reference tool that provides detailed demographic data on more than 23 million businesses and 206 million consumers.… Read More
EBSCO adds Occupational Health Content to ExPub database - March 12, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced a new agreement to add Haz-Map to its ExPub database. Haz-Map is designed to assist professionals seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biological agents in the workplace. Haz-Map references hundreds… Read More
TEMIS and Agence France-Presse expand strategic partnership - March 9, 2012
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, and Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the three worldwide news agencies, have announced that they are greatly expanding their strategic partnership to deploy semantic enrichment on AFP’s future editorial console. Covering the world… Read More
Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics partner to publish new book series - March 8, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) have announced a partnership to publish a new book series - SIMAI Springer Series. Research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English will make up the series, focusing on the applications of… Read More
Harvard Library to deposit about 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust - March 8, 2012
The Harvard Library has announced that it will deposit about 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. The move follows Harvard's first deposit of about 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011. The Harvard Library, founded in 1638, claims to… Read More
RSNA launches Radiology Select, a continuing series of topical collections of selected Radiology articles - March 7, 2012
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has launched Radiology Select (rsna.org/radiologyselect), a collection of Radiology articles focusing on a specific subspecialty topic. Published bi-annually, Radiology Select will feature 20 to 35 Radiology articles personally selected by one or more guest editors to form a… Read More