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
ALPSP, Swets launch 2011 ALPSP Learned Journals Collection - December 7, 2010
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and subscriptions services company Swets have announced the launch of the 2011 ALPSP Learned Journals Collection (ALJC). With a total of 1014 titles, the 2011 collection claims to be the largest to date,… Read More
GenomeQuest adds China sequence patents to IP research solution - December 7, 2010
GenomeQuest, a US-based provider of sequence data management (SDM) products, has announced that it has expanded its content for patent search to include sequences filed at SIPO, the patent office of China. More than 40,000 sequences from over 5000 Chinese patents are already indexed and searchable… Read More
