Autism Speaks to use PlumX to track research impact - June 18, 2014
Autism Speaks, an autism science and advocacy organisation, has purchased PlumX™ to track the metrics on the research outputs that its funding has helped create. PlumX from Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company, will give Autism Speaks powerful and… Read More
Portico and the Library of Congress announce digital preservation agreement - June 18, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that the Library of Congress (LOC) has joined its e-journal and e-book digital preservation services. LOC joins hundreds of libraries and publishers around the world who support Portico's work. Portico and the Library of Congress have been working together… Read More
Houston’s Memorial Hermann Health System opts for UpToDate Anywhere as its evidence-based clinical decision support resource - June 18, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Houston's Memorial Hermann Health System has launched UpToDate® Anywhere as its evidence-based clinical decision support resource. The largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas, Memorial Hermann is answering the call from its 5,000 affiliated physicians for anytime,… Read More
ProQuest adds over 1,650 ebook titles from Wiley and Wolters Kluwer Health to Academic Complete - June 17, 2014
ProQuest has added more than 1,650 ebook titles from publishers Wiley and Wolters Kluwer Health to Academic Complete, the flagship ebook database from ebrary. The new content will improve research outcomes, while a new enhancement for the database - the popular LibraryThing for Libraries™ Book Display… Read More
Elsevier to use Knewton technology to create next generation of digital course materials - June 16, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced a collaboration with Knewton, an adaptive learning company. Starting with courses for nursing and health professions students, Elsevier will use Knewton's infrastructure to power personalised digital solutions that continuously adjust to each individual's unique learning needs. Elsevier is a global leader… Read More
Chemistry World and Scientific American announce content sharing partnership - June 16, 2014
Chemistry World and Scientific American have announced a content sharing partnership where selected cutting edge chemistry content from Chemistry World will appear on the Scientific American website. Scientific American is at the heart of Nature Publishing Group's consumer media division, meeting… Read More
The Serials Solutions website merges into proquest.com - June 16, 2014
The serialssolutions.com website has migrated to become part of the proquest.com website as of June 9. This move reflects the uniting of all Serials Solutions technologies, including Intota and the Summon Service, into the ProQuest brand. Serialssolutions.com pages have been automatically redirected as of June… Read More
Elsevier acquires Amirsys, a healthcare information solutions and content for radiology, pathology, and anatomy provider - June 13, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Amirsys. Focused on visually oriented medical disciplines like radiology, pathology and anatomy, Amirsys' global solutions give healthcare providers the expert information and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to make informed, expert and evidence-based diagnoses. Amirsys also provides learning… Read More
Wiley acquires SimBioSys - June 13, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has acquired SimBioSys Inc., a provider of scientific software tools that facilitate the drug discovery process. Terms were not disclosed. SimBioSys is a pioneer in the field of computer-aided retrosynthetic analysis where it supports chemists in the challenges of… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry renews cooperation agreement with SAFEA – a division of the Chinese Government - June 13, 2014
The Royal Society of Chemistry celebrated the renewal of a cooperation agreement with the State Administration for Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) - a division of the Chinese Government - with an event at Burlington House in London. As part of a wider Chinese governmental initiative… Read More
