Scitopia.org signs new content partners - June 17, 2009
Scitopia.org, a free, federated search portal created by leading science and engineering societies, has signed three new content partners, expanding its single-search access to include the digital libraries of the Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics… Read More
ACS shifts to condensed print format for journals - June 17, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced plans to begin publishing the print editions of most of its journals in a 'rotated and condensed' format that will fit two pages of content on one printed page. The plan, which will go on stream in July 2009,… Read More
EBSCO Publishing releases database of STM content for R&D community - June 17, 2009
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has released a database of journals, magazines, books and other content addressing the needs of the corporate R&D community. Built specifically for corporate access, Academic Search R&D (ASR&D) is claimed to be the world's most comprehensive source for scientific,… Read More
ebrary announces new technology enhancements - June 17, 2009
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced a number of new features that make it quicker and easier to discover, use, and manage information online. ebrary has enhanced its QuickView Reader, which does not require any software downloads or installations. New QuickView features… Read More
Emerald signs agreement with Portico to preserve e-journals - June 17, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US. Portico provides a service to permanently preserve scholarly research in electronic form so that this information will remain accessible to… Read More
Springer honours developers of software package rbMIT with CSE Prize 2009 - June 17, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has awarded the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Prize 2009 to Phuong Huynh, Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen and Gianluigi Rozza for developing the software package rbMIT, used in solving parametrised partial differential equations by the reduced basis method. The rbMIT software package is being… Read More
