Serials Solutions adds seven more content providers to certification programme - March 3, 2008
Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has announced that seven e-resource content providers have become KnowledgeWorks Certified. The content providers have pledged to work with Serials Solutions to supply quality bibliographic metadata to customers through the latter's KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase. Current KnowledgeWorks Certified providers include… Read More
United Business Media transforms CMP into four new, market-focused businesses - March 3, 2008
Niche information services provider United Business Media plc has announced that it will restructure CMP Technology (CMP) into four new, market-focused businesses. As independent organisations, each new business will be well positioned to meet the changing needs of the professional communities and technology markets it serves.… Read More
CARL and SPARC launch Canadian version of researcher-focused web resource - March 3, 2008
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) have announced the launch of Create Change Canada, a Canadian version of the researcher-focused web resource on scholarly communication. The original Create Change website was developed… Read More
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
