Projects In Knowledge launches free point-of-care resource on Non-small-cell lung cancer - March 13, 2012
Projects In Knowledge (PIK), a provider of cutting-edge educational programmes for physicians and other clinicians, has launched its latest free app for iPhone and iPad: Living Medical eTextbook: Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Edition. This point-of-care clinical tool enables oncologists and other clinicians to keep abreast of critical… Read More
HighWire launches 1000th mobile website - March 13, 2012
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced the launch of its one thousandth mobile website. This milestone was achieved in just over a year from the initial deployment of the HighWire Mobile Web product. The latest mobile site to launch on… Read More
Elsevier launches NeuroApps: MRI Atlas of Human White Matter - March 13, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of NeuroApps: MRI Atlas of Human White Matter, the first in a new series of apps created for the iPad. Based on the MRI Atlas of White Matter by Kenichi Oishi, Andreia V. Faria, Peter C M van… Read More
Google reportedly scaling back books digitisation project - March 12, 2012
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, as observed by librarians involved with the digitisation project. However, it remains unclear what this would mean for the company's long-term investment in the Google Books project. Google has… Read More
Apple, US publishers threatened with lawsuit for colluding over e-book prices - March 12, 2012
The US Justice Department has reportedly warned Apple, Inc. and five of the nation’s leading publishers that it plans to take legal action against them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of e-books. The publishers include Pearson, Macmillan, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster and… Read More
EBSCO Publishing’s first eBook subscription offering provides access to 70,000 eBook titles - March 7, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has released its first subscription eBook collection. eBook Academic Subscription Collection supplies full-text eBooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included in eBook Academic… Read More
Thieme expands E-Book Library, adds new titles - March 7, 2012
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the expansion of its E-Book Library with the addition of titles in the areas of anatomy, complementary medicine, dermatology, neurology, and toxicology. Some of the most popular features of the site include offline viewing, as well as the… Read More
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation releases App for the iPad - March 5, 2012
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R) has released the new AJPM&R for the iPad app. The journal is the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP). The… Read More
Amazon arm launches workflow tool for developers to coordinate processes better - February 23, 2012
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), part of US-based online retailer Amazon.com, recently introduced Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF), a workflow service for building scalable, resilient applications. Whether automating business processes for finance or insurance applications, building sophisticated data analytics applications, or managing cloud infrastructure services,… Read More
New Faculty of 1000 application helps researchers identify best research in Biology and Medicine covered in Elsevier’s SciVerse - February 17, 2012
Article evaluation services provider Faculty of 1000 (F1000), UK, has announced the launch of a new application that helps researchers explore the scientific content in biology and medicine included in Elsevier's SciVerse platform. Once a SciVerse user adds the app, the articles that have been highlighted… Read More
