American Society for Microbiology in deal with Publishing Technology to create new digital platform - December 15, 2011
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) have announced a partnership to create a next-generation digital platform to host all of the organisation's published authoritative content online. The new custom-built site will be developed on Publishing Technology's… Read More
BMHMC integrates Thomson Reuters’ Micromedex Clinical Decision Support and CareNotes System Patient Education - December 14, 2011
Information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center (BMHMC) has successfully completed integration of Micromedex CareNotes into the hospital's Siemens Soarian Clinicals platform in order to improve workflow efficiency and patient education standardisation. The Micromedex integrated CareNotes solution provides… Read More
American Society of Civil Engineers selects Atypon’ Literatum publishing platform for new digital library - December 14, 2011
Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has selected its Literatum publishing platform to power the next generation of the ASCE Library. Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 140,000… Read More
UNESCO endorses IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries - December 14, 2011
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has endorsed the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Manifesto for Digital Libraries at its General Conference 2011. The Manifesto provides principles to assist libraries in undertaking sustainable and interoperable digitisation activities to bridge the… Read More
IBM unveils cloud drug discovery platform, SIPP - December 13, 2011
Technology firm IBM, US, recently launched a cloud analytics platform, called IBM Strategic IP Insight Platform (SIPP), to allow researchers to extract data from patents and scientific journals. The new application will reportedly allow researchers to speed up their searches of massive… Read More
Knovel launches Computer Hardware Engineering subject area - December 13, 2011
Engineering resources provider Knovel, US, has announced Computer Hardware Engineering as a new subject area. The new offering is designed to help electronics, computer, aerospace and mechanical engineers meet the requirements for electromagnetic shielding and control, increase the stability of the systems they design and improve… Read More
