Nature Publishing Group’s Linked Data Platform now hosts over 270 million RDF statements - July 23, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that its Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements. It has been expanded more than ten times, in a growing number of datasets. These datasets have been created under the… Read More
RSC and JISC Collections partnership provides member organisations with access to more chemical sciences content - July 23, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has signed a three-year agreement with JISC Collections for the latest deal expanding access to the RSC's international journals portfolio. The NESLi2 journals offer with JISC Collections for 2013, a membership organisation established by the UK Higher and Further… Read More
The Elsevier Foundation, TWAS and OWSD launch awards programme to recognise women scientists in developing nations - July 23, 2012
The Elsevier Foundation, the academy of sciences for the developing world (TWAS) and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) have announced the launch of an awards programme recognising talented early career women scientists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America… Read More
SPIE announces price freeze for SPIE Digital Library in 2013 - July 23, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced reduced or frozen subscription prices for subscribers of the SPIE Digital Library. An additional 40,000 articles from 1962-1989 are also being added to the collection, at no additional cost to subscribers. This is the fourth… Read More
BioMed Central launches new online reprint ordering service - July 23, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of a new online reprint ordering service, provided by EzReprint, a part of Yurchak Printing, Inc, based in the US. Reprints are produced from the final typeset article PDF. To place an order, from the… Read More
Aviation Week Editor-in-Chief Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. to retire, search for successor underway - July 23, 2012
Aviation Week, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced that its Editor-in-Chief, Anthony L. Velocci, Jr., will retire following a distinguished 23-year career with Aviation Week, nine of them as Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology (AW&ST). A search for his successor has… Read More
