BMC Research Notes and BioSharing launch first version of catalogue of standards - April 12, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Research Notes has partnered with BioSharing to bring out the first version of a catalogue of standards. Research community, funding agencies, and journals can now participate in the development of reporting standards for the… Read More
Jouve Group exhibiting at London Book Fair - April 12, 2011
XML and e-book conversion services provider Jouve Group, France, has announced that it is exhibiting at the ongoing London Book Fair, April 11-13, 2011, at stand W600- Digital Zone. The company is demonstrating to publishers how to convert, enrich and distribute their content in all digital… Read More
New SciFinder Mobile offers researchers access to SciFinder to speed scientific breakthroughs - April 11, 2011
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced the launch of the new SciFinder mobile platform. With no need to download a special app, the new SciFinder mobile platform allows researchers to use web-enabled smartphones to access CAS databases through SciFinder,… Read More
JISC welcomes new report investigating costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications - April 11, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has welcomed the 'Heading for the open road: costs and benefits for transitions in scholarly communications report', which adds to the growing knowledge into the different publishing models for UK research. JISC co-funded the report with the Research… Read More
Autonomy unveils new search technology with embedded images and videos - April 11, 2011
Software vendor Autonomy, UK, has reportedly introduced a new search technology intended for smartphones and tablet computers. The technology embeds images and videos directly on top of the image of a real object on the user's display. Called Aurasma, the software… Read More
London Book Fair conference stresses on importance of discoverability for e-books - April 11, 2011
Enhanced e-books are dead, discoverability is the most important issue facing e-book vendors, while pricing strategies should be measured against other digital content, not physical books. These were the key themes that emerged from the recently concluded London Book Fair's Digital Conference, The Digital Now: Creating… Read More
