Japan ministry selects Thomson Reuters’ information solutions for strategic national project on accelerating translational research - January 21, 2009
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation (FBRI) has selected its key intellectual property and pharmaceutical & life sciences data platforms - Thomson Innovation, Thomson Pharma and IDRAC - for a major national project. The project aims… Read More
Elsevier, CAS agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange - January 21, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and chemical database provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently reached an agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange to improve their respective operations and service offerings. Under the agreement, Elsevier will… Read More
Apple opts for MathType as equation editor for new iWork ’09 suite of applications - January 21, 2009
Enterprise software vendor Design Science, Inc., US, has announced that Apple has chosen its product MathType as the equation editor for its new iWork '09 suite of applications. Design Science makes the MathFlow line of MathML editing and composition tools for XML publishing. Phil Schiller, Apple's… Read More
Tomball Regional Medical Center deploys Thomson Reuters’ Clinical Xpert Solutions - January 20, 2009
Healthcare solutions provider Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Tomball Regional Medical Center has selected the Clinical Xpert suite of products - Clinical Xpert Navigator and Clinical Xpert CareFocus - as part of its continuing effort to improve clinical performance and patient… Read More
American Nurse Today, NINR partner to provide research news for nurses in practice - January 20, 2009
American Nurse Today, the official journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md, have partnered to deliver succinct reports of current research to nurses in practice. The first article in this periodic… Read More
The British Library selects Syndetic Solutions for catalogue enrichment - January 16, 2009
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced that it has won the contract to provide catalogue enrichment to the British Library via their Syndetic Solutions service. The agreement includes the provision of tables of content, images, annotations, first chapters and author notes for UK and US… Read More
The UNILINC Library Network in Australia opts for Ex Libris discovery and delivery interface - January 15, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the UNILINC network has selected the Company's Primo discovery and delivery solution. UNILINC is a network of university, research, and other higher education libraries in Australia. Primo is claimed to be a one-stop solution for the… Read More
OCLC and Atlas Systems sign deal to continue development of resource sharing services - January 13, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has signed an agreement with Atlas Systems, creator of ILLiad and Odyssey resource sharing management software. Under the deal, OCLC will continue to support ILLiad and Odyssey and, in partnership with Atlas Systems, integrate the software… Read More
The American College of Cardiology, Elsevier renew publishing partnership - January 12, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has renewed its publishing partnership with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), a nonprofit medical society in the field of cardiovascular research. The Society has been publishing with Elsevier for more than two decades… Read More
Springer set to publish Phytoparasitica, expands portfolio in plant sciences - January 12, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish the journal Phytoparasitica, starting with Volume 37, Issue 1, beginning in February 2009. Backfiles of the journal to June 1973 will be available on Springer's online information platform SpringerLink. Professor Jaacov Katan from the Department of… Read More
