Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct launches with HighWire - October 21, 2009
Printing and publishing services provider The Sheridan Group, US, and Stanford University’s HighWire Press have announced the availability of a new service, Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct, on select HighWire-hosted publications. The service allows readers to create their own customised content collections for… Read More
Dear Subscriber - October 21, 2009
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ICSTI to host one-day workshop – Interactive Publications and the Record of Science - October 20, 2009
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that it is organising a one-day workshop titled Interactive Publications and the Record of Science. Open to both members and non-members, the workshop will be held at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, on February… Read More
EU launches Bookshop Digital Library at Frankfurt Book Fair - October 20, 2009
The European Union launched the EU Bookshop Digital Library at the recently concluded Frankfurt Book Fair. Twelve million scanned pages in more than 110, 000 EU publications are now available free of charge for download in the EU Bookshop Digital Library. The digital library offers all… Read More
Elsevier to unveil BrainNavigator with added features at Neuroscience 2009 event - October 20, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will showcase the new features it is rolling out for its BrainNavigator research tool at the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience 2009 event in Chicago. Recently adopted by the US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH), BrainNavigator is an online,… Read More
Libraries shifting spending from content to technology, says Outsell report - October 20, 2009
Media industry-focused research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has released the second annual ‘Library Market Size, Share & Forecast Report’. The report shows that libraries are shifting from content spending to technology spending - digitising collections, acquiring native digital content, and developing digital storage and… Read More