Gale expands product strategy, boosts publishing program to address key library needs - March 4, 2014
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced expanded product and services initiatives, new publishing program and the addition of industry-leading STEM content from partners. These updated strategies and partnerships usher in a new… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing joins ‘Access to Research’ initiative - March 4, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has joined the 'Access to Research' initiative. Led by The Publishers Licensing Society, the scheme brings together UK publishers and librarians to make over 1.5 million academic articles freely accessible to the British public. The two-year pilot was set up… Read More
Elsevier study throws light on India’s performance as benchmarked against other research nations - March 4, 2014
A recent study prepared by Elsevier for the UK's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and based on Scopus data, shows that India has achieved substantial growth in research articles output, increasing from 54 thousand in 2008 to 93 thousand in 2012 at an annualized… Read More
ÜberResearch launches free funding wizard for ORCID - March 4, 2014
ÜberResearch, a provider of software solutions for research funders, has announced the launch of their free funding wizard for ORCID, under the name ÜberWizard. The wizard allows ORCID users to import and associate their funding data with their ORCID record, through a… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health to distribute Northern Light Life Sciences Conference Abstracts collection through OvidSP - March 4, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, has announced a partnership with Northern Light to distribute the Northern Light Life Sciences Conference Abstracts collection through its OvidSP medical research platform reaching thousands of institutional subscribers worldwide. Northern Light's Life… Read More
The University of California selects Symplectic to implement a publication harvesting system to support UC’s OA policy - March 4, 2014
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July 2013. Symplectic's flagship product, Elements,… Read More
