Serials Solutions launches new discovery service - January 21, 2009
Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has launched a new service that will create Google-like searching of the full breadth of content found in library collections - from books and videos to e-resources at the article level. The new Summon unified discovery service is… Read More
International grant competition Digging into Data Challenge launched - January 21, 2009
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee together with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USA's National Science Foundation and Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council have announced an international grant competition - the Digging into Data Challenge. The challenge is… Read More
Japan ministry selects Thomson Reuters’ information solutions for strategic national project on accelerating translational research - January 21, 2009
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation (FBRI) has selected its key intellectual property and pharmaceutical & life sciences data platforms - Thomson Innovation, Thomson Pharma and IDRAC - for a major national project. The project aims… Read More
Ex Libris launches collaboration initiative for design of digital preservation system - January 21, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced a Charter Program to foster strategic collaboration between the company and its customers on the ongoing design of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. Having gone live at the National Library of New Zealand in November… Read More
Dear Subscribers - January 21, 2009
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Elsevier, CAS agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange - January 21, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and chemical database provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently reached an agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange to improve their respective operations and service offerings. Under the agreement, Elsevier will… Read More
