Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals launches OA design journal on QScience.com - March 22, 2011
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) has announced the launch of Tassmeem on QScience.com, the digital publishing portal for research journals. Tassmeem is a new, peer-reviewed, open-access, international design journal that provides a multi-modal forum for the exchange of ideas and findings on all aspects of creative… Read More
Dialog seeks applications for 2011 Roger K. Summit Scholarship - March 22, 2011
Online information services provider Dialog, part of the ProQuest family of businesses, is seeking applicants for its 2011 Roger K. Summit Scholarship. Open to applicants from around the world, the US$5,000 award is given annually to a promising graduate student in library and information sciences. The deadline to apply… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - March 22, 2011
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Thomson Reuters offers free access to clinical information on radiation exposure - March 21, 2011
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the availability of evidence-based clinical and patient-focused information that covers the evaluation and treatment of radiation exposure in response to the disaster in Japan. These free resources can be downloaded from http://healthcare.thomsonreuters.com/radiation and… Read More
UK seen to evince interest in adopting Google Apps for Government - March 21, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly seeing tremendous interest from the UK government in its web-based Google Apps because of the focus on cost cutting in the public sector. Google Apps is a totally web-based set of tools… Read More
IOS Press offers authors an Open Access option via the Open Library initiative - March 21, 2011
Scientific and medical publishing house IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Open Library, offering authors and their funders the option to publish their articles with full Open Access in the IOS Press journals. This arrangement is subject only to the requirement of proper attribution… Read More