PubMed Abstract display enhanced with images from NCBI Images database - October 25, 2010
PubMed, a service of the US National Library of Medicine, has announced that the PubMed Abstract display for PubMed Central articles will now be enhanced to include an image strip generated from the soon-to-be-released National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Images database.… Read More
ALPSP members to receive discounts on the Consortium Directory Online - October 25, 2010
Marketing services provider Frontline GMS Ltd, UK, and journal supply chain support provider Ringgold, Inc have arranged for small and medium sized members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) to receive up to 30 percent discount on the… Read More
Accelrys announces annual European User Group Conference - October 25, 2010
Scientific informatics software and services company Accelrys, Inc., US, has announced that its annual European User Group Conference will be held at the Dolce Sitges Hotel, Barcelona, Spain, October 26-28, 2010. The merger of Accelrys and Symyx created the scientific informatics software company. At the conference,… Read More
Argosy extends use of Publishing Technology’s author2reader application as business expands - October 25, 2010
Publishing Technology, a UK-based provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has announced that Argosy Books, Ireland, has extended the use of its author2reader application for their new book distribution service. Argosy has been successfully using Publishing Technology's VISTA-branded author2reader software for their wholesale… Read More
ITT Dublin to implement Library Anywhere from LibraryThing for Libraries - October 25, 2010
Bibliographic information provider Bowker has announced that the ITT Dublin (Institute of Technology Tallaght) has chosen Library Anywhere by LibraryThing for Libraries to provide a mobile catalogue within their Innovative Millennium library catalogue. ITT Dublin is reportedly the first library in the… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 25, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Is There Really a Systematic Problem in Medical Publishing? Or Just a Reporter With a Narrative?); Edward Boon (Publishing Firms Must Adapt To E-Books If They Are To Survive); Phil Davis (Can Open Access Journals Guarantee Sound Methods?);… Read More