Gale set to launch Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources - March 17, 2009
E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the June 2009 launch of a new electronic resource, GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources). A one-stop site, GREENR will provide authoritative reference content in the area of the environment,… Read More
Ex Libris and BCR sign deal to provide digital preservation training and consulting services - March 17, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, and Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) have signed an agreement to offer libraries, archives, and other information organisations foundation training and consulting services in the field of digital preservation. The training will include an overview of digital preservation as… Read More
More BioMed Central journals set to receive Impact Factors - March 17, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that nine of its journals have recently been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters and are set to receive their first Impact Factors in June 2009 and June 2011. The journals Diagnostic Pathology; Implementation Science; Journal of Cardiothoracic… Read More
Dear Subscribers - March 17, 2009
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SAGE set to launch Handbook Collection on SAGE Reference Online platform - March 16, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE is set to launch the SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks, digitised and hosted on the SAGE Reference Online platform. The Handbook Collection was developed following extensive consultation with librarians about how researchers are actually… Read More
EMpact Sales to promote IOP journals in regions of North, Central, South Americas and the Caribbean - March 16, 2009
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced an agreement with non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, to serve as sales agent. The agreement grants EMpact the rights to sell IOP's print and… Read More