FIZ Karlsruhe to market in-house version of USGENE in Europe - May 6, 2009
Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, has entered into an agreement with US-based SequenceBase Corporation for promoting the USGENE in-house version more effectively in Europe. USGENE is a resource for life-science intellectual property professionals, providing unrivalled searchable access to all available peptide and nucleotide sequences… Read More
XTractor Premium for scientists to access data stored in PubMed - May 6, 2009
Life sciences informatics company Molecular Connections, India, has announced the availability of XTractor Premium, a knowledge management platform, for the biomedical research community. The product is projected to provide scientists with new and refined ways to access the latest scientific facts from PubMed. Pharmaceutical companies, researchers… Read More
EBSCO to host 30 Open Days across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia - May 6, 2009
Journal subscription services provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), US, has announced that following the recent success of its first wave of Open Days during the last two months, it will continue the 30-event series through November 2009, in major cities across Europe, Middle East, Africa and… Read More
Elsevier Health Sciences names Dr. David Goldmann as Editor-in-Chief of First Consult - May 6, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Dr. David Goldmann has joined Elsevier Health Sciences as Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, First Consult. As Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Goldmann will be responsible for developing the overall content strategy and vision and leading the entire content production of First Consult and… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 6, 2009
The seventh edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Roy Tennant (Library of Congress Releases Official Linked Data Site); Philip Davis (Paying for Open Access Publication Charges); Stevan Harnad (Conflicts of Interest in Open Access); and Steve Helyin (The World's Foremost Consultant on the Future of Publishing). A service… Read More
BMJ articles dating back to 169 years made available for free online - May 5, 2009
The BMJ Group, UK, has announced that every article published since the British Medical Journal's first issue in October 1840 is now freely available online from bmj.com. Eighteen of the BMJ Group's specialist journals - including Heart, Gut and Thorax - are also available. The archive… Read More
