Serials Solutions announces enhancements to 360 Resource Manager Consortium Edition - April 6, 2009
Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has announced enhancements to Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager Consortium Edition that increase resource sharing efficiency for consortium and library groups and improvements that provide superior performance across all Serials Solutions 360 services. The… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 6, 2009
The third edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Steven Sieck (Science Publishers Stepping Up Online Community Initiatives); Charlie Rapple (If we invented the scholarly journal today, what would it look like?"); Morgan Langille (Is PLOS One the future of scientific publishing?); Kheskett (EndNote & HubMed); and John Timmer… Read More
Royal Society launches enquiry on long-term prospects for UK science and innovation - April 3, 2009
The UK's Royal Society has embarked on an 11-month enquiry into the role that science will play in equipping the nation to meet the economic, social and environmental challenges of the next 50 years. The study, titled 'The Fruits of Curiosity: science, innovation and future sources… Read More
DOAJ launches cooperative initiative for long-term preservation of OA journals - April 3, 2009
The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) of Lund University Libraries and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) have announced the launch of an initiative to secure the long-term preservation of OA journals. The initiative is being sponsored by the Swedish Library… Read More
Elsevier announces Asia and Pacific availability of illumin8 - April 3, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the Asia and Pacific (APAC) availability of illumin8, a Web-based natural language processing solution designed to help corporate research professionals answer complex R&D questions with greater speed and effectiveness. illumin8 extracts key relationships across the breadth of Elsevier's premium scientific… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell announces publishing partnership with the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - April 3, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership with the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell will publish the Society's journals Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and Integrated… Read More