ebrary enhances interface with new functionalities - May 20, 2009
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has enhanced its interface with a number of new capabilities in a bid to make content discovery, usage, and management quicker and more productive. All ebrary products now integrate with RefWorks and EndNote for… Read More
OCLC, partners developing network-level solution for unmediated article resource sharing - May 19, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced an alliance with IDS Project staff, creators of the Article Licensing Availability Service (ALIAS), and Atlas Systems staff, creators of ILLiad and Odyssey resource sharing management systems. The collaborative effort will seek to use… Read More
Biomedical bibliographic database EMBASE now available on EBSCOhost - May 19, 2009
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have entered into a partnership allowing hospitals to access EMBASE on EBSCOhost. EMBASE is a biomedical bibliographic database produced by Elsevier. EMBASE is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research. The… Read More
Jones and Bartlett acquires Sleep Ed, LLC - May 18, 2009
Educational publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (J&B), US, has announced the acquisition of Sleep Ed, LLC, a publisher of references for sleep technicians and professionals as well as respiratory care students. Essentials of Polysomnography, a textbook recently published Sleep Ed, claims to be the only… Read More
JustSystems in partnership with Mark Logic for streamlined data aggregation - May 15, 2009
XML content server provider Mark Logic Corporation, US, and JustSystems, an independent software vendor in Japan, have announced a technology partnership. The alliance will enable enterprise organisations to streamline data aggregation, content creation and publishing of financial reports using XBRL. Details of how the two companies… Read More
Fedora Commons, DSpace Foundation launch open source repository initiative - May 14, 2009
Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation, two open-source software platforms for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly material, have announced the launch of the DuraSpace Organization. Through this initiative, Fedora and DSpace seek to jointly provide leadership and innovation in open source technologies… Read More
SAGE extends contract with ScholarOne Manuscripts - May 13, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that academic publisher SAGE has extended its contract with ScholarOne Manuscripts (formerly Manuscript Central) as its online peer review system. ScholarOne Manuscripts is a web-based peer review and submission application for scholarly… Read More
CPM Resource Center and The Shams Group announce partnership - May 13, 2009
CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company, and The Shams Group (TSG) have partnered to provide small- and medium-sized hospitals with next-generation nursing and interdisciplinary documentation that integrates with their current health information systems. Through this new partnership with TSG, CPMRC seeks to bring its evidence-based… Read More
RSC acquires ChemSpider - May 12, 2009
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced the acquisition of ChemSpider, a free online service providing a structure centric community for chemists. This acquisition complements RSC's existing leading role in online chemistry, including award-winning semantic mark-up technology and the release of the InChI resolver, recently launched… Read More
Wiley expands partnership with Amazon - May 12, 2009
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, US, has announced that it is expanding its partnership with Amazon to offer select Wiley textbooks for sale through the Kindle DX. The large-screen Kindle DX, the latest addition to the Kindle family, will enable the delivery of textbooks on a… Read More
