Diverse crew to tackle key challenges at the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair - October 15, 2010
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that marketing, partnerships, small-scale subject repositories, customer service, multidimensional image data, curation micro-services, and liberating folklore journals are some of the topics that will be tackled in the SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting Innovation Fair. SPARC,… Read More
Connecticut Library Consortium joins OCLC Partnership Program - October 15, 2010
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced the Connecticut Library Consortium (CLC) as the latest partner in the OCLC Partnership Program. The CLC is a statewide membership collaborative that serves all types of Connecticut libraries by initiating and facilitating cost-effective services,… Read More
US Health and Human Services ASPE selects Thomson Reuters to build tool that streamlines CER - October 15, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has been selected by the US Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) to develop a secure, interactive tool that will enable researchers to perform comparative effectiveness studies without the need for… Read More
UK exhibition to examine growth of research with new tools - October 15, 2010
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that researchers' interactions within a digital environment at the British Library are set to help it and similar organisations lead the future of research. The way that people interact with never-seen-before research tools, thought-provoking content and futuristic… Read More
Apollo Hospitals partners with The BMJ Group for mobile health applications - October 15, 2010
Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals has announced an agreement with medial publisher The BMJ Group to develop mobile health applications for patients and continuous medical education (CME) for doctors and other healthcare professionals. The BMJ Group is the media arm of the British Medical Association. The first… Read More
Metadata for three APA resources added to Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service - October 15, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and the American Psychological Association (APA) have announced an agreement to bring rich APA content into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, for three APA resources will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the… Read More
