Nature Education founding sponsors to sponsor student access to Scitable - April 7, 2010
Nature Education, the educational wing of scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that founding partners Roche Applied Science, Tata Consultancy Services, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, and New England Biolabs have pledged substantial financial sponsorship to Scitable. Scitable is Nature Education's free… Read More
SAGE and National Library of China agree access to backfile collection - April 7, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new agreement with the National Library of China which enables access to SAGE’s deep backfiles for over 1425 libraries in China. The National Library of China helps to support the country’s research community with more than 241,100,000 volumes/items, including both… Read More
ebrary announces new Software as a Service for government documents - April 7, 2010
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced the availability of Software as a Service (SaaS) for governments that make information much more discoverable. With ebrary’s SaaS, agencies, institutes, and centers can transform any PDF documents into searchable, highly interactive databases that can be… Read More
Emerald acquires information management group ASLIB - April 7, 2010
Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has announced that MCB Group, its holding company, has acquired ASLIB, an association for information management. Emerald and ASLIB have been working closely together since 2001, when ASLIB’s collection of research journals, including Journal of Documentation and ASLIB Proceedings, was acquired by… Read More
Knovel redesigns user interface for AIChE members - April 7, 2010
Knovel, a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced a re-designed user interface for members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). AIChE members now have the ability to save and organise frequent searches, titles and content. Engineers who join… Read More
Cadmus unveils XML-to-EPUB conversion service for scholarly publishers - April 6, 2010
Content management and production services provider Cadmus Communications, US, has announced the release of an automated XML-to-EPUB conversion service. The service will provide digital content to EPUB-compliant e-book devices, such as the Apple iPad, for the scholarly publishing community. EPUB is an industry standard structure developed… Read More
