Canadian, UK organisations tie up to enhance research efficiency across borders - April 4, 2012
The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI), a community-driven membership organisation founded in Canada, has invited the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to be its first UK member. The two organisations will work together to advance a standard data dictionary for research and to… Read More
SAE International acquires ABP International, dba Tech Briefs Media Group - April 4, 2012
Engineers and technical experts association SAE International, US, has acquired ABP International, dba Tech Briefs Media Group through a stock purchase. Tech Briefs Media Group will now become a subsidiary of SAE International. The announcement was made by Dr. David L. Schutt , CEO, SAE International.… Read More
Baker & Taylor to provide ebooks via the Blio ereading application on Azpen tablets - April 4, 2012
Baker & Taylor, Inc., a distributor of digital and physical books, together with K- NFB Reading Technology, developer of the Blio ereading application, have announced that an ebook platform featuring the Blio ereader will soon be available on Azpen Innovation's Android-based tablet devices. Azpen is a… Read More
Elsevier to integrate geological maps from the Society for Sedimentary Geology into Geofacets - April 3, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will integrate about 18,000 geological maps from the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) into its web-based research tool Geofacets. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, SEPM is home to some of the most esteemed journals and must-have resources for geological… Read More
TEMIS and SOQUIJ sign license and services agreement - April 3, 2012
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a major license and services agreement with SOQUIJ, a legal publisher attached to the Quebec Ministry of Justice. In order to enhance access and the navigation experience for its users, while… Read More
Bowker merges PubTrack and BML brands to create Bowker Market Research - March 30, 2012
Bibliographic information management solutions provider Bowker, US, has merged the US-based PubTrack Consumer brand with UK-based Book Marketing Limited (BML) under a new global brand named Bowker Market Research. Products and services coming together under Bowker Market Research are the newly merged US and UK consumer… Read More
Pharmacy OneSource releases new version of Simplifi 797 - March 30, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Pharmacy OneSource has released a new version of Simplifi 797, a web-based quality assurance software for USP chapter 797 compounding compliance. The upgraded version of Simplifi 797 includes CriticalPoint’s education programme, which gives… Read More
WTI-Frankfurt eG’s Technology and Management database now available in the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service - March 30, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with Germany-based WTI-Frankfurt eG. The agreement allows content from WTI’s TEMA (Technology and Management) database to be available in the Base Index of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). TEMA includes more than four… Read More
Amazon Web Services, NIH offer free access to 1,000 Genomes Project - March 30, 2012
The complete 1,000 Genomes Project is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a publicly available data set. This was announced by AWS and the US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the White House Big Data Summit. Amazon Web Services… Read More
American Physiological Society and HighWire Press renew partnership - March 28, 2012
Non- profit publisher the American Physiological Society (APS) has announced that it has renewed its partnership with HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries. The APS is a non-profit organisation publishing 13 widely acclaimed scholarly journals covering all aspects… Read More
