Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 30, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Erik Sherman (Google and Microsoft Fight for Search Future — Whatever It May Be); Kent Anderson (Today’s UK Researchers: E-journals Dominate, Access Not an Issue, Skimming Increasing); Joe Wikert (Why Are eReader Apps Stuck in the DOS Era?); Jeevan Padiyar… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - August 30, 2010
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Apple’s iPad will dominate tablet market through 2012, says iSuppli forecast - August 27, 2010
Despite various rival products set to be launched, Apple, Inc.'s iPad is unlikely to face a viable competitor until 2011, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp. This would allow Apple to maintain a dominant share in the tablet market at least through 2012, iSuppli has… Read More
Elsevier to provide four key e-textbooks for UC Irvine School of Medicine’s new iPad programme - August 27, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of Medicine's new programme that gives Apple iPads to its first-year medical students. Elsevier will provide UCI's incoming medical students with access to Netter: Atlas of Human… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ CareNotes System for patient education to include coverage in 15 languages - August 27, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has expanded its Micromedex CareNotes patient education system to include coverage in 15 languages. Until now CareNotes was available only in English and Spanish. Customers will now have access to a core set of CareNotes and DrugNotes in Arabic, Chinese… Read More
EBSCO Publishing adds text-to-speech feature to EBSCOhost databases - August 27, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has added text-to-speech (read aloud) support to EBSCOhost databases, including its major school and public library databases, by embedding Texthelp Systems' SpeechStream toolbar. Users will be able to take advantage of this new feature, provided at no additional… Read More
