Elsevier acquires Mendeley - April 10, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Mendeley, a London-based company that operates a global research management and collaboration platform. Researchers worldwide use Mendeley's desktop and cloud-based tools to manage and annotate documents, create citations and bibliographies, collaborate on research… Read More
SAGE to publish The Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening - April 10, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it will publish The Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening (JIEMS), a new open access, online-only journal in 2013, with manuscripts being accepted in mid-April. JIEMS will be the official journal of the Latin American Society of Inborn… Read More
Dissertations from European universities to be available via ProQuest’s PQDT Global - April 9, 2013
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it is digitising more than 15,000 dissertations from premier European universities, providing broad, online access to these works for the first time. Digital discovery of the works from University College London, University of Aberdeen, Cardiff… Read More
NISO publishes Recommended Practice for Institutional Identifier - April 8, 2013
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Recommended Practice: Institutional Identification: Identifying Organizations in the Information Supply Chain. This Recommended Practice describes the work done by the NISO Institutional Identifier (I²) Working Group to define the requirements for a standard… Read More
DeepDyve selects Reprints Desk to expand access to full-text articles - April 8, 2013
Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced a collaboration with DeepDyve Inc., an online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles. With this agreement, the companies seek to expand access to full-text articles for registered DeepDyve.com users by supplementing DeepDyve's existing article rental… Read More
ASM Press chooses Scope for enhanced metadata for its books - April 5, 2013
Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, recently completed an engagement to help enhance book content discoverability for ASM Press, the book publishing division of the American Society for Microbiology. The engagement involved the creation of two types of… Read More
Australasian universities welcome Springer Book Archives - April 5, 2013
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will offer online access to 100,000 eBooks with historic content through its Springer Book Archives (SBA), available anywhere, at any time, via SpringerLink by the end of 2013. As early adopters, Australasian universities were some… Read More
Newly established Ural Regional Universities Consortium in Russia gains access to ScienceDirect and Scopus - April 4, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its official collaboration with the Ural Regional Universities Consortium by providing 11 universities in Russia's Ural region with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus throughout 2013. Led by the Ural Federal University, the Ural Regional University Consortium was newly established… Read More
McGraw-Hill Professional and IHS partner to deliver critical engineering content to professionals worldwide - April 4, 2013
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has signed an exclusive agreement with IHS, the premier source of insight and information to professionals in the field. As part of the agreement, IHS will provide McGraw-Hill Professional's innovative AccessEngineering platform as part of its suite… Read More
Project MUSE partners with HighWire Press - April 4, 2013
The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has reached an agreement with Stanford University's HighWire Press to transition to the HighWire Open Platform as the new digital hosting and delivery platform for Project MUSE. Over the past year, JHUP and its digital publishing unit Project MUSE… Read More
