French publishers set to sue Google over scanning project - April 2, 2010
Three major French publishers are reportedly filing lawsuits against Internet search services provider, Google, Inc., US, for the illegal scanning of their catalogues. This was announced by Antoine Gallimard, CEO of French publisher Gallimard, at the Paris Book Fair, media reports have indicated. The move follows… Read More
UpToDate adds Allergy, Asthma and Immunology content to clinical information database - April 2, 2010
UpToDate, part of healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the addition of Allergy and Immunology to its clinical information database. Subscribers to UpToDate can now access over 300 topics specifically devoted to allergy, asthma and immunology, and a total of over 8,300 topics… Read More
Serials Solutions receives full permissions as CONSER Affiliate member - April 2, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, a business unit of ProQuest Information and Learning, has announced that its catalogers can ‘CONSER authenticate’ non-CONSER records for distribution as new records. Now a CONSER Affiliate member of the Library of Congress’ Serial Record Division… Read More
RSC supplies practical science teaching software free to all state secondary school in the UK - April 2, 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry is supplying free computer memory sticks, on request, to every state secondary school in the UK. The computer memory sticks will comprise a radical new virtual teaching tool to eradicate fear of performing laboratory experiments. The new e-learning tool, Chemistry LabSkills,… Read More
A*STAR ranked 7th in Asia-Pacific for research publications - April 2, 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has been ranked seventh most prolific agency in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the total number of research papers published in Nature Publishing Group’s portfolio of Nature-branded journals in 2009, according to the Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index.… Read More
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