Dear Subscriber - November 20, 2009
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Doctors Without Borders physicians to receive free access to MD Consult - November 19, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the physician-members of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, will receive free access to MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com), its electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool. The move is part of Elsevier’s ‘All You Need… Read More
SAGE journals to migrate to HighWire’s new H2O platform in 2010 - November 19, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a major upgrade to its SAGE Journals Online (SJO) platform. More than 560 SAGE journals will be available on the next generation platform, supported by HighWire Press’ 2.0 technology (H2O), by the end of 2010.
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Wiley-Blackwell announces publishing partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - November 19, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced a publishing partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the Journal… Read More
ACM partners with FEDLINK to facilitate access to ACM Digital Library - November 19, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it has agreed to participate in the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) of more than 1,000 US Government member libraries to facilitate their access to the ACM Digital Library (DL) (http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm). FEDLINK… Read More
E-Science Survey preliminary results and resources released - November 19, 2009
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) E-Science Working Group surveyed ARL member libraries in the fall of 2009 to gather data on the state of engagement with e-science issues. An overview of initial survey findings was presented by E-Science Working Group Chair Wendy Lougee, University Librarian,… Read More
