Springer and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research announce license agreement - September 21, 2011
STM publisher Springer, Germany, and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research have signed a first national license for the acquisition of scientific, medical and technical (STM) information on the online platform SpringerLink. The French agency ABES (Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement… Read More
Atypon and Taylor & Francis announce broad development agreement - September 21, 2011
Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that its Literatum software is powering the new Taylor & Francis Online platform. Taylor & Francis Online hosts 1.7 million articles. The Taylor & Francis Group, which is… Read More
DOE-funded research now accessible via DataCite - September 21, 2011
Researchers funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) can now make their scientific research data easier to cite and easier to find from worldwide sources. The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is now registering publicly available scientific research datasets created by DOE-funded… Read More
UK Higher Education Funding Bodies select Elsevier’s SciVerse Scopus as Data Provider for 2014 Research Excellence Framework - September 20, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that four UK Higher Education Funding Bodies (representing England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) will use Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus database as the sole bibliometric provider for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The Framework was developed to assess the quality… Read More
The Company of Biologists to preserve e-journals in the CLOCKSS Archive - September 20, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with The Company of Biologists to preserve their e-journals in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, The Company of Biologists has committed to… Read More
Swets adds Impact Factor analysis to SwetsWise Selection Support - September 20, 2011
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the successful implementation and release of impact factor analysis into SwetsWise Selection Support. SwetsWise Selection Support offers an unparalleled range of features that assist librarians in making more informed collection development decisions. Usage statistics, subscription details and price… Read More
