Palgrave Pivot launches with publication of 21 new titles - October 30, 2012
Higher education publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced the launch of Palgrave Pivot, a new initiative that seeks to break down the boundaries of publishing research. Palgrave Pivot has launched 21 new titles including Global and Transnational History, written by historian Akira Iriye; Media, Myth, and Society… Read More
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Bodleian Libraries in deal with Elsevier for ClinicalKey - October 30, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has signed a one-year agreement with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) and the Bodleian Libraries providing access to ClinicalKey. Launched earlier this year, ClinicalKey draws answers from the largest proprietary collection of clinical resources, covering every medical… Read More
Serials Solutions Summon Service expands Japanese-language content with Japan Medical Abstracts Society - October 30, 2012
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and the Japan Medical Abstracts Society (JAMAS) have improved access to Japanese-language article abstracts in Ichushi-Web through the Summon web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata from the JAMAS abstracting and indexing database for more than 5,800 journals covering medicine, dentistry… Read More
IOP Publishing launches article level metrics on its journal platform IOPscience - October 30, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced the launch of article level metrics on its journal platform IOPscience. Article level metrics are increasingly being used by authors and readers to view the wider impact of an article beyond traditional citations. The… Read More
ProQuest and ACRL call for applications for ProQuest Support Staff Scholarships - October 30, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) are calling for applicants for the ProQuest Support Staff Scholarships that will send eight library professionals to the 2013 ACRL Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10-13, 2013. The scholarships are… Read More
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal announce two publishing initiatives to expand reach - October 30, 2012
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), has announced two publishing initiatives that will expand the reach of PRS to the international plastic surgery community. The initiatives are: a publishing partnership between PRS… Read More
