Elsevier and Wood Mackenzie collaboration to help geoscientists enhance geological basin assessments and models - April 12, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a collaboration with Wood Mackenzie, a provider of research and consultancy to the energy and metals industries, to combine scientific and commercial information into Geofacets. This enhancement to Geofacets brings together the collection of geological maps and information sourced from… Read More
OCLC and Ingram to offer new service option to access e-books - April 12, 2011
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and Ingram Content Group Inc. will soon offer a new service option that will provide library users short-term access to e-books not in their collection through WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad. … Read More
ProQuest opens access to popular databases during National Library Week - April 12, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, is offering libraries new opportunities to market their rich online database services to their communities during the National Library Week (April 10-16). The company is also giving citizens a chance to share their love of libraries on its Facebook… Read More
Nature Publishing Group set to publish official journal of the ACMG from 2012 - April 12, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) have announced a publishing partnership for the journal Genetics in Medicine. Under the deal, NPG will begin publishing the journal in January 2012 on behalf of ACMG. … Read More
Emergency Health Threats selects Co-Action Publishing to publish EHT-J - April 12, 2011
Open access (OA) scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has been selected by the Emergency Health Threats Forum to assume ownership and publication of the journal, Emergency Health Threats Journal (EHT-J). The new journal moves to the Co-Action Publishing portfolio as of April 11, 2011. Current content… Read More
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
