HighWire-hosted journals rank high among SLA’s Top 100 Journals in Biology and Medicine - April 1, 2009
Online technology provider in scholarly publishing HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has announced that HighWire-hosted journals account for 37 of the top 100 journals in Biology and Medicine, according to SLA's BioMedical & Life Sciences Division. In conjunction with SLA's Centennial, the… Read More
George Washington University opts for AquaBrowser Unified Discovery Interface - April 1, 2009
Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has announced that the Gelman Library System at George Washington University has chosen the AquaBrowser Unified Discovery Interface to provide patrons with enhanced access to the library's entire collection. Gelman Library is a member of the Washington Research… Read More
Dear Subscribers - April 1, 2009
We are happy to release the second edition of blogspeak. Featured are Peter Murray Rust(Would the NIH policy destroy the ACS?); the shifted librarian(Twittephemeraliness); Stevan Harnad (On Throwing Money At Gold OA Without First Mandating Green OA, Again); and the UK PubMed Central (enabling easier reporting on the outcomes of… Read More
Now follow Knowledgespeak on Twitter - March 31, 2009
Knowledgespeak.com, published by Scope e-Knowledge Center, is now on twitter - http://twitter.com/knowledgespeak. Read More
Elsevier implements Klopotek’s PPM system for Science and Technology book titles - March 31, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has launched Klopotek's PPM (Product Planning and Management) system for the first group of their Science and Technology book titles in the US, the UK, and India. Klopotek PPM replaced the existing software systems with a centralised database… Read More
Thomson Reuters and Egyptian Universities Libraries sign multi-year contract - March 31, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that Egyptian Universities Libraries (EUL) has selected Thomson Reuters to provide research solutions to their consortium of university libraries. EUL signed a multi-year contract with Thomson Reuters to provide Egypt's researcher's access to ISI Web of… Read More