Global science community to form virtual library for scientific data - October 27, 2008
Scientific organisations representing over 130 countries have agreed to overhaul existing world data centres and services to create a World Data System, the International Council for Science (ICSU) has announced. The existing networks for collecting, storing and distributing data in many areas of science are seen… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell launches Wiley Registry 8th Ed. /NIST 2008 Mass Spectral Library - October 27, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the publication of the Wiley Registry 8th Edition /NIST 2008 Mass Spectral Library, the latest update of the two most trusted collections in mass spectrometry. Featuring over 560,000… Read More
Springer, ASRM to co-publish the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics - October 27, 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics (JARG) in cooperation with the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), starting January 2009. A Springer journal since 1984, JARG will gain not only a new sponsoring society in… Read More
Virgo Publishing renames today’s surgicenter to SurgiStrategies - October 27, 2008
B2B publisher Virgo Publishing, US, has announced a new editorial direction for the publication - today's surgicenter - starting in January 2009. The journal will now be called SurgiStrategies. The scope of coverage will expand to deliver relevant, timely, ahead-of-the-curve content to help readers analyse and… Read More
Vietnam Journals Online reaches 1,000 journal articles mark - October 27, 2008
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) has announced that Vietnam Journals Online (VJOL), a project supported by the INASP, now has 1,000 journal articles online. Initiated in July 2006, VJOL was officially launched in September 2007. The project… Read More
The University of Amsterdam and the University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands opt for Aleph from Ex Libris - October 27, 2008
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the library of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Media Library of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) - the University of Applied Sciences - have selected the Aleph integrated library system (ILS) from Ex Libris.… Read More
