Serials Solutions and Jisc Collections’ Knowledge Base+ announce new collaboration to improve library workflows - September 25, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced a collaboration with Jisc Collections KB+ to improve library workflows by transferring data from KB+ to the Serials Solutions knowledgebase. This cooperative effort will keep current data from Jisc Collections up to date in the Serials Solutions knowledgebase, saving… Read More
OUP plans Nelson Thornes transition for early 2014 - September 25, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that Nelson Thornes will be formally integrated into Oxford University Press early in 2014. OUP, which is a department of the University of Oxford, acquired the educational publisher in January 2013. It has since operated Nelson Thornes as… Read More
Maney Publishing set to publish the Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute - September 25, 2013
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has partnered with the Deep Foundations Institute to publish DFI Journal - The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute from 2014. The journal publishes papers related to the broad area of deep foundations engineering and construction. Published biannually, the journal is an… Read More
Aberystwyth University partners with Emerald to launch Pathways to Information Leadership programme - September 25, 2013
Aberystwyth University, a public research university located in Aberystwyth, Wales, has teamed up with academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited and ASLIB, The Association for Information Management, to provide employees and employers across the globe with higher education accreditation in information leadership. 'Pathways to Information… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health and American College of Physicians expand publishing partnership - September 24, 2013
Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that ACP Smart Medicine, an evidence-based clinical reference tool produced by the American College of Physicians, will be available on its OvidSP medical research platform. In addition to ACP Smart Medicine, ACP's peer-reviewed clinical journal,… Read More
CAS and the Czech Consortium partner to provide SciFinder to faculty, staff and students at universities in the Czech Republic - September 23, 2013
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, and the Czech Consortium, a regional consortium of schools outside Prague, jointly announced their collaboration to provide SciFinder to member universities. SciFinder is the proprietary search and analysis tool that accesses CAS databases, which claims to… Read More
OCLC and Plum Analytics partner to use WorldCat to measure impact of research - September 20, 2013
Computer library service OCLC has announced a partnership with Plum Analytics, an altmetrics organisation that develops analytical tools for scholars and researchers, to leverage WorldCat data to help researchers better analyse and measure the impact of their work. Plum Analytics provides a set of tools… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry acquires MarinLit - September 20, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry has completed the acquisition of MarinLit, a database of marine natural products literature. In addition to bibliographic data, the database contains an extensive collection of keywords, trivial names, compound information including structures, formulae, molecular mass, numbers of various functional groups, and… Read More
BMJ and Saudi Arabian government sign cooperation agreement to improve healthcare across the region - September 20, 2013
Medical knowledge provider BMJ has announced a new partnership with the Saudi Arabian government to help improve consistency in healthcare across the region. BMJ CEO, Tim Brooks, joined the Saudi Arabian Minster, Dr Mohammed Zamakhshary, to sign an Executive Agreement for Cooperation in Health Learning… Read More
ETH Zurich selects Mendeley Institutional Edition to empower research programmes - September 20, 2013
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, and Mendeley have announced that the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH) in Zurich – under the aegis of the ETH library - has acquired a three year license for the Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE). Consistently ranked one of the top… Read More
