SciFinder Scholar registers 1500th subscriber - April 9, 2008
Chemical database provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that SciFinder Scholar, the leading scientific research tool for academia, has registered its 1500th subscriber. SciFinder Scholar is now in 90 percent of all universities worldwide granting a minimum of a 4-year degree in chemistry. This milestone… Read More
PrioInfo licenses ebrary’s e-publishing system to distribute e-books throughout Scandinavia - April 9, 2008
E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that PrioInfo, its long-time valued reseller in Scandinavia, has licensed its technology to aggregate e-books and other digital content from Scandinavian publishers and distribute it directly to local libraries and other institutional markets. PrioInfo recently launched its new service… Read More
Dear Subscribers - April 9, 2008
STM Publishers can now add their Company to the Knowledgespeak Directory list. You can also update our events calendar, if you are organising an event which may be of interest to the STM publishing community. Also, you can send your company
ChemSpider invites OA publishers to design data deposition interface - April 8, 2008
ChemSpider, an online resource for chemists to search, aggregate and mine publicly available chemical data, has invited open access (OA) publishers to design an interface (preferably web-based) to facilitate direct deposition of data into ChemSpider. The proposed interface should allow OA publishers to feed articles with… Read More
Lancet launches initiative to archive data on global health campaigns - April 8, 2008
Medical journal The Lancet has launched an initiative called The Lancet Global Health Network (http://www.thelancetglobalhealthnetwork.com) to scale up its global health campaigns and create an archive of science for health and human development. The new, editorially independent initiative will search and archive… Read More
NPG and Tokyo Institute of Technology launch new materials website for Asia - April 8, 2008
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the Asia-Pacific wing of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), has announced a partnership with a research group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology to launch a new website, NPG Asia Materials (www.natureasia.com/asia-materials). Highlighting some of the best materials research from… Read More
