ACS Mobile app now available on Android tablets and smartphones - March 29, 2011
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the expansion of its mobile application, ACS Mobile, to tablet and smartphone devices with Google's Android operating system. Launched initially in 2010 for Apple iOS devices, including an optimised version for the iPad tablet, ACS Mobile allows scientists… Read More
Serials Solutions and HathiTrust collaborate to increase discoverability of libraries’ print collections - March 29, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, and HathiTrust have announced an agreement to enable full-text search of the entire HathiTrust collection of digitised scholarly books from the Summon web-scale discovery service. HathiTrust is a… Read More
Just a fraction of Twitter users attract significant attention, says Yahoo study - March 29, 2011
Yahoo! Research, the central advanced research organisation of global Internet brand Yahoo! Inc., has released a study report on Twitter usage across the world. According to the study, a mere 20,000 Twitter users steal almost half of the… Read More
Eminem’s legal victory may set course for sharing of digital revenues with artists - March 29, 2011
The US Supreme Court has reportedly refused to hear an appeal, letting stand a lower court's decision that digital music should be treated as a licence. Though the artist at the centre of the suit is rapper Eminem, thousands of older artists… Read More
InTech launches new OA journal – Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology - March 29, 2011
Open access (OA) publisher InTech has announced the launch of its new OA journal - Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology. Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology will publish peer-reviewed papers at the forefront of nanoscale science and technology, bringing together the science and applications of nanoscale and nanostructured materials with… Read More
TechTarget to acquire Computer Weekly from Reed Business Information - March 29, 2011
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc., US, has signed an agreement to acquire the websites, product offerings, and events associated with Computer Weekly and its sister channel-targeted brand MicroScope from Reed Business Information Ltd. The transaction is expected to close by the end of April, subject to… Read More
