Techstreet expands online offering of construction and safety industry codes and standards - June 30, 2011
Techstreet, a Thomson Reuters business, has announced that it has signed agreements with a wide range of construction and safety standards publishers to distribute standards, manuals and codes online. The online availability of these standards will promote industry compliance, safety and public health by providing a… Read More
SAGE to publish Administrative Science Quarterly journal - June 29, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it has been chosen by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University to publish its journal, the Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ), beginning this month. ASQ claims to be a top-tier journal that has been on the… Read More
Co-Action Publishing and International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm announce publishing partnership - June 28, 2011
Open access (OA) scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced that it has been selected by the International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (IMI) to publish the institute's two journals - Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography and Tellus Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology -… Read More
ProQuest and American Economic Association announce distribution agreement - June 27, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has signed an agreement with the American Economic Association (AEA) to distribute its journals to libraries around the world. The addition of the seven journals, including the historic American Economic Review, is part of major content expansion by ProQuest.… Read More
EBSCO Publishing announces unlimited usage options and free upgrades for H.W. Wilson Retro Index customers - June 27, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has lifted the simultaneous user restriction and provided a free upgrade to unlimited access for all Wilson Retro Index customers. Customers with simultaneous user access to the 15 Retro Indexes available from H.W. Wilson will now have unlimited… Read More
South Africa’s National Research Foundation selects InCites to analyse institutional productivity - June 27, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the National Research Foundation (NRF), an independent government agency supporting research in South Africa, has selected InCites to analyse institutional productivity and benchmark its research output versus peers worldwide. InCites is a citation-based research evaluation tool… Read More
Cengage Learning expands strategic partnership with the National Geographic Society - June 27, 2011
Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, has signed a definitive agreement that significantly expands its strategic partnership with the National Geographic Society (NGS) including the acquisition of the NGS school publishing unit and extended use of the NGS brand. Since 2007, Cengage… Read More
SciVerse ScienceDirect content now searchable via Ex Libris Primo Central Index - June 24, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group have announced their collaboration to make the full text of SciVerse ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks searchable in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index. Primo Central is an integral part… Read More
University of New Brunswick Libraries becomes first Canadian university to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services - June 24, 2011
Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that the University of New Brunswick Libraries is the first Canadian library to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services, the Web-based cooperative library management tools for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, license management and workflow… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Elsevier partner to provide full-text searching of SciVerse ScienceDirect database - June 23, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced a partnership under which, full text from SciVerse ScienceDirect will be added to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). ScienceDirect, part of the SciVerse suite of search and discovery… Read More
