CAS launches free web-based resource for non-chemists - May 15, 2009
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has launched a new, free, web-based resource called Common Chemistry. This resource is helpful to non-chemists and others who might know either a chemical name or a CAS Registry Number of a common everyday chemical… Read More
Portico announces preservation deal with M.E. Sharpe - May 15, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with publisher M.E. Sharpe to preserve its entire online journals collection of 38 titles. With this inclusion, over 14,000 e-books and e-journals have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Through this agreement with Portico,… Read More
SAGE journal accepted for coverage in MEDLINE - May 15, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the American Journal of Men's Health (AJMH) has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a premier bibliographic database containing more than 16 million… Read More
New interactive clinical calculators in DynaMed - May 15, 2009
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that its clinical reference tool, DynaMed, now includes over 500 interactive clinical calculators, decision rules and statistics to provide clinicians with even more decision-making tools to use at the point-of-care. Most calculators include information to help clinicians… Read More
ICSTI 2009 Conference – Managing Data for Science - May 14, 2009
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) 2009 conference will be held from June 9-10, 2009, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Organised by the NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), the conference will examine how publishers, librarians and researchers can work… Read More
Fedora Commons, DSpace Foundation launch open source repository initiative - May 14, 2009
Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two open-source software platforms for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly material, have announced the launch of the DuraSpace Organization. Through this initiative, Fedora and DSpace seek to jointly provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies… Read More
