ebrary unveils new ‘Patron Driven Acquisition’ e-book model - October 5, 2010
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has collaborated with librarians and publishers to develop a new Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) model. With ebrary's implementation of PDA, libraries may create collections of titles of their choice, provide full access to end-users,… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell’s Biotechnology journals portfolio now available via DeepDyve - October 5, 2010
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has launched of a pilot programme to make its portfolio of Biotechnology journals with more than 75,000 articles available through DeepDyve, an online rental service for scientific and scholarly… Read More
Duke joins Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity - October 5, 2010
Duke University has joined a group of leading research institutions in signing a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE). The compact seeks to make it easier for researchers to publish their work in open-access scholarly journals, where it would be freely available online. As part of… Read More
EPiServer launches EPiServer MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad - October 5, 2010
Web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer, UK, has launched the EPiServer MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad. The App, a mobile version of EPiServer OnlineCenter, is designed to give interactive marketers, content publishers and Web developers greater control over their online properties. MobileCenter claims to… Read More
LWW expands expert clinical content in Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills - October 5, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has expanded the expert clinical content in Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills to include 100 perioperative nursing procedures. The new perioperative procedures are the latest addition to the comprehensive… Read More
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry calls for new leadership search - October 5, 2010
The longtime editor-in-chief of The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Herbert Tabor, has asked that a search begin for a new leader to take the reins of the journal in 2011. Tabor, a distinguished researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md., has… Read More
