NetAdvance and OCLC to add metadata from JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat - March 31, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and NetAdvance are working together to add metadata from the JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive online catalogue of library resources, increasing discovery and access to these rich… Read More
Annual Reviews launches new journal – Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior - March 31, 2014
Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has announced the launch of a new journal - Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. The purpose of this journal is to provide distinctive reviews across the range of topics in industrial and organisational… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 31, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (CC-BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy); Bonnie Swoger (Post publication peer-review: Everything changes, and everything stays the same); Char Miller (Open Access as Undergraduate Pedagogy | Backtalk); Limor Peer (Mind the gap in data reuse: Sharing data is necessary… Read More
Scopus launches Cited References Expansion Program for archival content - March 28, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus has launched its Cited References Expansion Program to include cited references in its database going back to 1970 for pre-1996 content. In addition to increasing the depth of Scopus' scholarly content, including cited references for pre-1996 content will… Read More
Thomson Reuters releases analysis of global trademark trends in its third-annual State of Trademarks Report: Global Insights on Trademark Trends - March 28, 2014
Thomson Reuters CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business, has released its analysis of global trademark trends in its third-annual State of Trademarks Report: Global Insights on Trademark Trends. The report tracks trademark activity across 186 countries, covering nearly 4-and-a-half-million marks published across… Read More
Japan remains major scientific power in Asia-Pacific - March 28, 2014
Japan remains the major scientific power in Asia-Pacific, despite China nipping at its heels. This is according to the Nature Publishing Index (NPI) 2013 Asia-Pacific published as a supplement to Nature. Japan, which is overcoming the impacts of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, with… Read More
