OCLC conducting pilot project on capturing metadata from publishers - December 17, 2007
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that it is conducting a pilot project to explore the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream. Further, it plans to enhance that metadata in WorldCat, an online resource for… Read More
ASME unveils digital library on hosting service Scitation - December 17, 2007
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and online sci-tech publishing and journal hosting service provider Scitation recently announced the initial rollout of the comprehensive new ASME Digital Library (http://www.asmedl.org). The ASME Digital Library consolidates the Society's numerous… Read More
Elsevier announces date of Fuel Cells Science and Technology event - December 17, 2007
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will hold the Fuel Cells Science & Technology 2008 event on October 8-9, 2008. Following the success of the previous three events, the fourth event in the series will be held at the Confederation of Danish Industries, Copenhagen,… Read More
GlobalSpec announces strategic partnership with NASA Tech Briefs - December 17, 2007
Search engine and online engineering community operator GlobalSpec, US, has announced a partnership with NASA Tech Briefs. The official publication of the US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NASA Tech Briefs is designed to reach OEM design/development engineers and managers. Under the deal, visitors to… Read More
PhysMath Central announces membership agreements with physics laboratories - December 17, 2007
PhysMath Central, BioMed Central's open access publishing platform for the fields of physics, mathematics and computer science, has announced membership agreements with the CERN and DESY high-energy physics laboratories. Under the deals, the organisations will centrally cover article-processing charges for all research published by their researchers… Read More
Springer to publish musculoskeletal surgery journal – La Chirurgia degli Organi de Movimento - December 17, 2007
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will begin publishing La Chirurgia degli Organi de Movimento: Musculoskeletal Surgery in December 2007. The journal is the official publication of the Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, one of the most renowned orthopedic institutes in Europe. It is published three… Read More
