EBSCO offers Unicode enhancements for A-to-Z customers - December 4, 2007
Subscription services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that its EBSCO A-to-Z (A-to-Z) service now offers enhanced Unicode searching, browsing and sorting to meet the needs of its international customers. Customers can now find results for non-English language titles that have been added to their A-to-Z title… Read More
AIP redesigns abstract pages on Scitation - December 4, 2007
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced changes in both the look and functionality of the abstract pages linked to its online journal articles hosted on Scitation. On the front and centre are a number of Web 2.0 enhancements that now infuse these pages with… Read More
ProQuest, JBI sign exclusive agreement for evidence-based nursing data - December 4, 2007
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced that it has been chosen as the exclusive, worldwide online distributor to libraries of full-text evidence-based health information for nurses and allied health professionals from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). A collaboration of nurses, medical and allied… Read More
Cambridge University Press set to launch eBook Collections - December 4, 2007
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced that it will use Ebooks Corporation's eb20 platform to deliver ebooks to academic libraries. This was announced at the ongoing Online Information Conference in London. eb20 is a browser-based online ebook reader that was originally developed by… Read More
BioMed Central launches new OA journal – Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes - December 4, 2007
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes. Professor Axel Ekkernkamp of the University of Greifswald, Germany, will serve as Editor-in-Chief. He will be supported by an expert Editorial Board. The Journal… Read More
CMPMedica’s medical journals content to be accessible via SIMID SMILE - December 4, 2007
Healthcare education and information provider CMPMedica, UK, part of United Business Media plc, recently announced a partnership with medical database provider Scientific Institute for Medical Information and Documentation (SIMID), Switzerland. Under the deal, metadata and full-text articles from CMPMedica's portfolio of medical journals will be included… Read More