Children’s Tumor Foundation ties up with Thomson Reuters for research funding schemas - April 12, 2013
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a partnership with the nonprofit Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF). The aim is to further the understanding of neurofibromatosis (NF) research by creating schemas that visually demonstrate the main pathways involved in NF and how the… Read More
CCC’s suite of Pubget document management solutions now available to Ovid’s global corporate institutional customer base - April 12, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, and licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, have announced a partnership to make available CCC's suite of Pubget document management solutions - PaperStream, RightSphere and PaperStats - to simplify institutional content discovery, compliance… Read More
Waseda University Library becomes first in Asia to acquire the Springer Book Archives - April 12, 2013
STM publisher Springer has announced that the Waseda University Library, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, has acquired the English-language Springer Book Archives (SBA). Members of the university community now have online access to Springer content dating back to 1842 via SpringerLink, Springer's online platform.… Read More
The Virtual Library of Virginia and the Washington Research Library Consortium sign eBook deal with Springer - April 11, 2013
STM publisher Springer has signed a major deal with the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC). The agreement gives students and researchers from across more than 80 campuses access to Springer eBook content. With the completion of this deal,… Read More
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
