Atypon to power Oldenbourg’s new publishing platform - January 19, 2010
Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that academic publisher Oldenbourg Verlagsgruppe, Germany, is using Atypon's software to power its just-launched publishing platform for its journals and books. The Oldenbourg Verlagsgruppe, which includes its subsidiary Akademie Verlag, publishes 40 journals and more than 400… Read More
Unbound Medicine and Wiley-Blackwell partner to launch Evidence Central - December 16, 2009
Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, has announced the launch of Evidence Central, an integrated evidence-based solution, with content from its partner, Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US. Evidence Central supports effective medical practice through delivery… Read More
JISC campaign to debate how digital technologies are revolutionising research - November 27, 2009
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK, has announced the launch of a year long campaign called ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’, to debate how digital technologies are changing not only what research we do, but how it can be carried out. According to… Read More
IEEE launches mobile version of IEEE Xplore digital library - November 24, 2009
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US, has announced the launch of its first mobile version of the IEEE Xplore digital library. More than two million documents can now be searched via any mobile device with Internet access. Using IEEE Xplore Mobile Beta, users… Read More
Elsevier launches MD Consult Mobile - November 13, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of MD Consult Mobile. Optimised for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphone devices, MD Consult Mobile allows clinicians to consult the same MD Consult content available from a laptop or desktop computer. Physicians of any specialty will now be… Read More
EBSCO unveils mobile phones version of EBSCOhost platform - November 12, 2009
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has released EBSCOhost Mobile, allowing researchers to access their EBSCOhost databases via smartphones and other handheld devices. The product seeks to provide a convenient way for customers using mobile devices to find quality content. The main EBSCOhost Mobile… Read More
Tarascon Publishing launches iPhone edition of Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia - November 10, 2009
Portable medical reference provider Tarascon publishing, an imprint of Jones and Bartlett Publishers, US, has announced the release of the Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia iPhone application. The new Pocket Pharmacopoeia iPhone application provides continuous updates to critical drug dosing information important to healthcare… Read More
QStar Healthcare to unveil archive appliance, new version of DICOM Publisher - November 10, 2009
QStar Healthcare has announced that it is set to launch its new vendor-independent SntryDICOM archive appliance. The company is showcasing the new version of DICOM Publisher with advanced CD and DVD encryption capabilities at RSNA 2009. Slated for November 29 – December 4 in Chicago, RSNA… Read More
NPG offers remote searching, desktop widgets via OpenSearch service - October 29, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it now offers remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch. The new service allows application software to query nature.com, and returns results in a machine-readable format that can be reused and redisplayed. OpenSearch is… Read More
Harvard Health Publications launch H1N1 flu iPhone application - October 29, 2009
The Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School, has launched an iPhone application focused on the H1N1 flu pandemic. The H1N1 iPhone application draws on the extensive knowledge of the experts at Harvard Medical School along with its long-standing expertise in publishing health… Read More
