Safari offers COUNTER compliance and more video formats in latest upgrade - June 18, 2008
Safari Books Online, a US-based e-reference joint venture between publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has announced enhancements to its services with the release of Safari 5.8. The latest version of Safari includes COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) compliance and the… Read More
Texterity announces beta launch of new magazine service - June 18, 2008
Digital publishing solutions provider Texterity, Inc., US, has announced the beta launch of a new magazine service, Coverleaf (http://www.coverleaf.com). The service makes companion digital magazines available free to paid print subscribers for the first time. It combines the best of companion digital… Read More
Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - June 18, 2008
Knowledgespeak is planning to atomise its content. A preliminary but significant initiative has already been taken in this direction. For an internationally esteemed association, we have repackaged and categorised our news under various topics to suit the information needs of its members. We are exploring other possibilities of bringing a… Read More
German research organisations set to launch digital information initiative - June 17, 2008
An alliance of German research organisations have agreed to launch a digital information initiative, which includes support for green OA, gold OA, and open data. The OA projects within the larger initiative will include new institutional and disciplinary repositories, the development of business models and financing for OA journals, pilot… Read More
EPSRC launches Digital Repositories e-Science Network - June 17, 2008
The UK's Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has launched the Digital Repositories e-Science Network (DReSNet). The network is expected to leverage the synergy between two fields of technology and technique, e-science and digital repositories. The digital material generated from and used by academic and… Read More
Ovid expands Shibboleth compliance to include German and French federations - June 17, 2008
US-based information research solutions provider Ovid Technologies, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that it has expanded its Shibboleth compliance for Ovid and SilverPlatter, its two precision search and discovery platforms, to French and German federations. Now, institutions in France and Germany which are part… Read More
