Attention Subscribers – Benefit now from the Content atomisation initiative from Knowledgespeak - June 17, 2008
Knowledgespeak is planning to atomise its content. A preliminary but significant initiative has already been taken in this direction. For an internationally esteemed association, we have repackaged and categorised our news under various topics to suit the information needs of its members. We are exploring other possibilities of bringing a… Read More
ProQuest to acquire Dialog business from Thomson Reuters - June 16, 2008
ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has signed an agreement under which ProQuest will acquire the Thomson Reuters Dialog business. The transaction is expected to close pending a successful completion of the formal consultation period and other customary closing conditions. Financial terms of the transaction were… Read More
SCONUL conference examines importance of research data management - June 16, 2008
The management and preservation of research data moved centre stage at the recently held SCONUL conference in Edinburgh. The annual gathering of senior librarians heard from a number of speakers about the information needs of the research community and in particular the role of libraries in managing the increasing amounts… Read More
Online literature evaluation services now free to explore - June 16, 2008
Online services Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine, the expert-driven article evaluation services, are now freely available for scientists, medics and journalists to explore. Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine are online services that help to… Read More
hakia expands health and medical search coverage - June 16, 2008
Semantic search engine hakia has announced that it has increased its health and medical search coverage by adding more than 10 million abstracts from PubMed, a medical database maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Using its advanced QDEX… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins sweeps healthcare publishing awards - June 16, 2008
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, received 19 different awards for writing, editing and design in the annual awards competition of the American Society of Healthcare Publications Editors (ASHPE). The awards include six gold, six silver and seven bronze awards.… Read More
