Academics in Russia gain access to the Science Classic digital archive - December 23, 2011
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that the Russian Ministry of Education and Science has selected Science Classic, the digital archives of Science (1880–1996), as the first acquisition in a major project to provide national access to scientific archives. Russian students,… Read More
Supplement issue of Journal of Clinical Virology brings together Papers on HIV Diagnostic Testing Algorithms - December 23, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its Journal of Clinical Virology has released a special supplement entitled 'Update on HIV Diagnostic Testing Algorithms' in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The supplement contains articles which summarise studies since the… Read More
RSC Publishing supports Japanese Shibboleth - December 23, 2011
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that it is developing the RSC Publishing Platform to work with Shibboleth institutions all over the world. With this move, the publisher seeks to provide customers and users more access… Read More
New online tool to accelerate materials discovery through advanced scientific computing - December 23, 2011
A new online toolkit developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory allows any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties to do so more easily than before. Using a website called the Materials Project, it… Read More
Brill releases BrillOnline.com, new resource center for study and research - December 23, 2011
Academic publisher Brill, Netherlands, has released BrillOnline.com, the brand new resource center for study and research. BrillOnline.com provides the academic user access to Brill's wide collection of e-books, online journals, online reference works and online bibliographies. At launch BrillOnline.com contains more than 800,000 documents. Projected… Read More
Open access widely supported by universities, research centres and funding agencies across Europe, says new report - December 22, 2011
The European Research Area Committee (ERAC) on National Open Access and Preservation Policies has published a report called 'Analysis of a Questionnaire to the European Research Area Committee'. The report reveals that open access is backed by a growing number of universities, research centres and funding agencies across Europe. The… Read More
