Macmillan launches Digital Science - December 8, 2010
International publishing business Macmillan Publishers Ltd, UK, has announced the launch of Digital Science, a new division of the company and a new kind of scientific information enterprise. Digital Science will focus on providing world-class software tools and services to scientists, managers… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - December 8, 2010
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
Publishing Research Consortium releases findings of global study on access to journal articles - December 7, 2010
The Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) has released findings of a global study, according to which, researchers in all disciplines, across the world, rate journal articles as the most important type of information - and they can get access to them. But there is more to be… Read More
Google launches e-books service – Google eBooks - December 7, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has launched Google eBooks, its digital bookselling enterprise. The service features about 3 million titles for free and hundreds of thousands for sale. Publishers include HarperCollins Publishers and Random House Group Ltd. Through this venture, Google seeks to compete… Read More
Amazon Web Services launches new DNS service in the cloud - December 7, 2010
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced Amazon Route 53, a Domain Name System (DNS) web service giving developers and businesses a highly available and reliable way to route Internet traffic to web applications by translating human readable names into numeric IP addresses.… Read More
Nature Network expands OpenSocial ‘Workbench’ for widgets - December 7, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the next stage in the evolution of its innovative 'Workbench' development platform. NPG is inviting the community to develop customised applications ('widgets') to search, discover and share scientific information. The Workbench development platform is built on OpenSocial… Read More
