EBSCONET offers greater licence details to better serve librarians - March 3, 2008
Journal subscription services provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), US, recently announced that the company has broadened the offerings of its e-service platform, EBSCONET, to provide detailed information about publisher licence agreements. This eliminates the need to navigate numerous publisher sites to locate licence data. Doing away… Read More
American Botanical Council acquires herbal database HerbMed - March 3, 2008
Research and education organisation the American Botanical Council (ABC) has reportedly obtained rights to the popular herbal database HerbMed and its enhanced professional version HerbMedPro. These databases are frequently used as a research tool by academic researchers, healthcare professionals, institutions, government agencies, industry, consumers, and others.… Read More
Inderscience brings out inaugural issue of four new journals - March 3, 2008
STM and business publisher Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland, has published the first issues of 4 new titles - International Journal of Applied Cryptography (IJACT); International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS); International Journal of Sustainable Design (IJSDes); and International Journal of Virtual Technology and Multimedia… Read More
Thomson Scientific names Marian Hollingsworth as Director, Publisher Relations - March 3, 2008
Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced the promotion of Marian Hollingsworth to the role of Director of Publisher Relations. She will report directly to Jim Testa, senior director, Editorial Development. Prior to this, Hollingsworth was manager, Publisher Relations since she… Read More
Dear Subscribers - March 3, 2008
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PLoS ONE publishes report on mathematical method to rank scientific journals - February 29, 2008
A team of researchers from Northwestern University has reportedly developed a mathematical method to rank scientific journals according to their quality. This approach is projected to help scientists locate high-impact research papers to read and to cite in their own papers. The team analysed the citation data of nearly 23… Read More
