ICIS expands electricity market coverage, offers Greek and Bulgarian price assessments - April 6, 2012
European electricity pricing and market information provider ICIS has announced that it is enhancing its daily electricity coverage by offering Greek and Bulgarian price assessments. Last year, Turkey began limited commercial flows, with Bulgaria and Greece forming part of its interconnection process with the main… Read More
Platts expands European forward-dated price assessments for crude oil and refined products - February 21, 2012
Energy and metals information provider Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced that it has significantly expanded its suite of European forward-dated price assessments for crude oil and refined products, adding more than 1,100 new data points to more than 40 forward… Read More
EC opens formal proceedings to investigate sales of e-books by five publishers - December 7, 2011
The European Commission (EC) has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether five international publishers have, possibly with the help of Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting the sale of e-books in the European Economic Area (EEA)1, in breach of EU antitrust rules. The opening of… Read More
EBSCO predicts up to 6 percent increase in publisher prices for libraries - September 19, 2011
Publishing services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that it expects the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries for 2012 (before currency impact) to be in the range of 4 to 6 percent. Since the last publication of this report a year… Read More
Platts expands offering of benchmark price references for plastics polymers - July 26, 2011
Energy and metals information provider Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has expanded its suite of petrochemical price references to include weekly assessments of five polymers imported into Brazil and key to the manufacturing of film and plastics in Latin America. The assessments… Read More
SPIE slashes SPIE Digital Library subscription fee for second time - July 22, 2011
SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, has announced that it is further reducing the prices of its SPIE Digital Library. The Society was among the first publishers to respond in 2009 to economic challenges besetting the research library community by reducing subscription prices. … Read More
NEJM articles made available via British Library’s Document Supply service - June 24, 2011
The British Library has announced that the latest articles from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) are now available via its Document Supply service. The journal is reportedly among the most widely read and cited medical journals. Following a licence agreement signed with the British… Read More
Google announces WebM Community Cross-License initiative - April 28, 2011
Internet search services provider, Google, Inc., US, has announced the WebM Community Cross-License (CCL) initiative. The initiative will seek to bring together companies that are willing to share any patents relevant to the WebM video format, and in particular the VP8 video compression algorithm. Besides… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces web-based extension of RED BOOK offering - March 30, 2011
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the availability of RED BOOK Online, a web-based extension of its current RED BOOK offering. Updated daily, RED BOOK Online provides transparent and consistent drug pricing and descriptive product information, including Average Wholesale Pricing (AWP) and Wholesale Acquisition… Read More
NCI renews site-wide licence for Ariadne’s Pathway Studio data mining software - March 7, 2011
Ariadne, a US-based provider of bioinformatics software, has announced that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed its licence for Ariadne's Pathway Studio Enterprise software. Pathway, which includes the ResNet Mammalian database and Ariadne MedScan text processing technology for site-wide use, is an integrated data-mining and… Read More
