iPad beats Android in web browsing usage, says Net Applications data - July 5, 2010
Analytics firm Net Applications, US, has released a new monthly browser usage data, according to which more people are browsing the web via an iPad than on an Android-powered device. Apple's iPad currently holds a 0.17 percent share in web browser traffic tracked by Net Applications.… Read More
Thomson Reuters launches free resource to improve drug development partnering - July 5, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has launched The Outpartnering Registry, an innovative resource designed to change the way biotechnology, pharmaceutical and academic organisations find partnering opportunities worldwide. The Outpartnering Registry is freely available to all organisations with drugs in development. It… Read More
SAGE journals post impressive impact factors - July 5, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that 31 Journals have been newly ranked in the latest Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR). SAGE's overall market share of the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) increased to 11 percent (340 titles). SAGE has consistently increased its JCR coverage year… Read More
Campus research gateway and expert finder BibApp released - July 5, 2010
The BibApp development team has announced the 1.0 release of BibApp, a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches researchers on the campus or research centre with their publication data, and mines that data to see collaborations, create visualisations of areas of research, and find… Read More
New thematic series highlights improvements in mortality statistics - July 5, 2010
Population Health Metrics, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently published a new thematic series entitled 'Measuring mortality in Thailand.' The series Editor, Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, is an Associate Editor for Population Health Metrics. The series describes methods and results from what could be… Read More
CERN bags 2010 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications - July 5, 2010
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe, an alliance of European research libraries, has announced CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as the winner of the 2010 SPARC-Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The Award was presented at the Aarhus State and… Read More