Mobile access for Knowledgespeak now available - July 15, 2010
Knowledgespeak subscribers, on the move, can now access quality STM News of their choice any time any where with the all new SCOOPE service. SCOOPE is the only mobile application that allows subscribers to customise content. Advantage of SCOOPE - Newsletters are now downloadable into local memory and read at… Read More
Paper on impact of Google Book Search project published - July 14, 2010
UC Berkeley law professor Pamela Samuelson has published a paper titled 'Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace', according to the Open Book Alliance (OBA). Samuelson is an advocate for the public interest in the Google Book Search (GBS) debate. In the paper,… Read More
CABI supports initiative to create a research infrastructure for microbial resources - July 14, 2010
Life sciences publisher CABI, UK, has announced that as a member of the Global Biological Resource Centre Network (GBRCN), it will support the proposal for a research infrastructure to improve access to high-quality microbial resources and bring together European microbial resource collections and their stakeholders -… Read More
Collexis launches community module for Expert Profiling application - July 14, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Collexis, an Elsevier business and developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software, has launched its community module for their Expert Profiling application. The release of version 3.6 Expert Profiling connects experts across the Collexis community from multiple institutions… Read More
ECS releases all data in open linked data format for public reuse - July 14, 2010
The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton has reportedly become the UK's first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The ECS is stated to be at the forefront of the open linked data… Read More
EBSCO, Thomson Reuters deal to enable mutual customers access to Web of Science - July 14, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and information services provider Thomson Reuters have announced an agreement allowing mutual customers to access Web of Science within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Institutions subscribing to both EDS and Web of Science may conduct their search via the… Read More