Emerald signs new consortium agreement with Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online - June 22, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced a new consortium agreement in Portugal. Lisbon-based Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online (B-ON) has signed a deal with the publisher, giving B-ON's 78 members the opportunity to subscribe to Emerald Management Xtra or Emerald Subject… Read More
IEEE ties up with AIP and AVS to offer access to select physics journals via digital library - June 18, 2009
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has teamed up with two physics organisations - the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and AVS - to offer a new subscription package. The package is available through the IEEE Xplore digital library (www.ieee.org/ieeexplore).… Read More
Springer announces publishing partnership with Association of Medicine and the Person - June 18, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a partnership with the Association of Medicine and the Person to publish the Journal of Medicine and the Person. The peer-reviewed, international journal is aimed at medical practitioners and scientists interested in broadening their knowledge in the field of ethics… Read More
KFUPM becomes first in Gulf region to purchase Web of Science backfiles - June 18, 2009
The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that King Fahd University For Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) has purchased Web of Science data back to 1900. KFUPM is the first university in the Saudi Arabia Consortia, and in the Gulf region, to purchase… Read More
Thomson Reuters, Research4life in deal to bring scientific research information resources to developing nations - June 17, 2009
The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that it is joining Research4Life to provide the developing world with access to critical scientific research. Special editions of ISI Web of Knowledge that include Current Contents Connect, Medline, EndNote Web, and ResearcherID, will be available… Read More
Scitopia.org signs new content partners - June 17, 2009
Scitopia.org, a free, federated search portal created by leading science and engineering societies, has signed three new content partners, expanding its single-search access to include the digital libraries of the Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics… Read More
Elsevier partners with NextBio to enhance ScienceDirect content - June 16, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new partnership agreement with NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data. This agreement allows for an integration of NextBio's set of ontology-based semantic… Read More
CABI partners with Semantico to launch enhanced version of database platform - June 16, 2009
Bibliographic databases, books and interactive electronic resources publisher CABI, UK, has launched a new and improved version of its database platform, CAB Direct. Designed and built by Semantico, the new version of CAB Direct includes CAB Abstracts and Global Health, two bibliographic databases in life science… Read More
Scopus includes ERIH journals to expand arts & humanities coverage - June 12, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus, its abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, has almost doubled its current arts & humanities (A&H) titles to 3,500. Scopus has added various global journals using the European Science Foundation's European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH). This… Read More
IOP Publishing joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - June 12, 2009
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced a partnership with e-resource access and management services provider Serials Solutions, US, to become KnowledgeWorks Certified. The KnowledgeWorks Certified programme helps Serials Solutions maintain the highest quality bibliographic metadata for e-resources.… Read More
