More than 80,000 geological maps added to Elsevier’s Geofacets platform - September 11, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that select content from some of the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) leading journals is now available in Geofacets. This addition of 80,000 maps will further increase the amount of essential geological information in the database, helping geoscientists make more informed interpretations… Read More
AMS publication MathSciNet now available via EBSCOhost - September 11, 2015
Libraries can now turn to EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to support the needs of those studying mathematical sciences. MathSciNet®, an electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), is now available via the EBSCOhost® platform, offering access to a carefully maintained database of reviews, abstracts and… Read More
WHO-hosted HINARI Program partners with Wolters Kluwer to provide free access to UpToDate to Ebola-affected African countries - September 11, 2015
The World Health Organization (WHO)-hosted HINARI program has announced a partnership with Wolters Kluwer to provide free access to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, to the three countries affected by Ebola (Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea) for an initial period of at least one… Read More
BMJ partners with University of Cape Town Lung Institute’s Knowledge Translation Unit to provide local health guidelines to improve patient care - September 11, 2015
BMJ, one of the world's leading healthcare knowledge providers, has partnered with the University of Cape Town Lung Institute's Knowledge Translation Unit (UCTLI KTU), to develop and distribute the Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK) programme to healthcare workers in low to middle income countries. … Read More
Wolters Kluwer and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. announce publishing partnership - September 10, 2015
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has entered a multi-year agreement to publish The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS), JBJS Essential Surgical Techniques, JBJS Case Connector and JBJS Reviews, beginning January 2016. The partnership,… Read More
Tomas Bata University takes a modern approach to research metrics with PlumX Dashboards - September 9, 2015
Tomas Bata University (TBU) is increasing the visibility of its researchers and providing alternative avenues through which to showcase the University's research output with PlumX Dashboards (PlumX). A prominent center of research in the Czech Republic, TBU has paired this research metrics tool from Plum™ Analytics, an Read More
Cambridge University and JRC sign MoU to promote and deepen scientific collaboration - September 9, 2015
The University of Cambridge and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission represented respectively by Jennifer Barnes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Strategy and Vladimír Šucha, Director-General, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote and deepen scientific collaboration. The… Read More
Brill adopts DataSalon platform and OrgRef dataset to drive sales and insight - September 4, 2015
Academic publisher Brill has adopted DataSalon's MasterVision platform to clean and connect a wide range of books and journals customer data, and including the OrgRef dataset for enhanced data quality and standard institutional identifiers. MasterVision gives Brill a complete single view… Read More
PubRef partners with Aries Systems to use the Editorial Manager Ingest Service - September 4, 2015
Aries Systems, a workflow solutions provider for scholarly publishers, has announced that PubRef will be participating in the EM Ingest initiative. PubRef is an innovative online HTML5 versioning virtual file system with a fast and simple user-interface that provides a unified environment for authoring and collaborating… Read More
Canadian Science Publishing and The Royal Society extend sales agreements with PCG - September 3, 2015
Canadian Science Publishing and The Royal Society have expanded their sales agreements with Publishers Communication Group (PCG) to full-time representation. Covering the North American library market on behalf of both publishers, PCG will now provide dedicated sales resource… Read More
