PubMed Central renamed PMC, adopts new web page design - August 6, 2012
PubMed Central, the repository of the US’ National Institutes of Health, has shortened its name to PMC in a bid to avoid being confused with PubMed. It has also gone for a new look and feel, and has been updated to conform to NCBI's new standards… Read More
Engineering News-Record wins five 2012 Azbee Awards of Excellence from ASBPE - August 6, 2012
McGraw-Hill Construction, a US-based provider of project and product information on the construction industry, has announced that its Engineering News-Record (ENR) has won five 2012 Azbee Awards of Excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). Each year, these prestigious awards recognise excellence in… Read More
SPIE promotes 122 nominees to Senior Member status in recognition of their professional experience - August 6, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has promoted 122 nominees to Senior Member status this year in recognition of their professional experience, active involvement with the optics community and SPIE, and significant performance that sets them apart from their peers. The promotions were… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 6, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Tim Vines (In Praise of Peer Review – A Personal Perspective); Rebecca Lawrence (Peer review is vital but its closed nature belongs to a bygone age. It’s time to open up); Joe Wikert (The Used Ebook Opportunity); Bob Grant (Whither… Read More
ARL joins LCA members and EFF in amicus brief supporting Google Book Settlement - August 3, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently joined other members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) - the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) - and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to file a friend of the court brief… Read More
EBSCO offers expanded access to eBooks on EBSCOhost via GOBI3 interface - August 3, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, and YBP Library Services, the academic division of Baker & Taylor, have expanded the EBSCO eBook models that are available in YBP's acquisition and collection development interface, GOBI3. Librarians who manage their e-book collections through GOBI3 now have additional… Read More
