Leading publishers join ebrary’ Publisher Half-Off Sale programme - August 17, 2009
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced a first-of-its-kind programme that brings libraries, corporations, and other organisations the best cost savings of the year on full-text e-books from leading publishers across the globe. Under the Publisher Half-Off Sale programme, institutions around the globe… Read More
ACS releases its first paperless annual report - August 14, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that it has published its Annual Report online for the first time. The 2008 ACS Annual Report has been published exclusively on the Web in a multimedia format. ACS has been working diligently towards a greener environment to reduce… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education, Amazon expand strategic alliance to include higher education content on Kindle and Kindle DX - August 10, 2009
Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced that it has expanded its strategic alliance with Amazon.com, Inc., to introduce the publisher's higher education content on Kindle and Kindle DX, Amazon's portable readers that wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines and newspapers to… Read More
Symyx Technologies’ ChemMobi application now available for free on App Store - July 24, 2009
Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced that its ChemMobi application is now available for free on the App Store. ChemMobi gives on-the-go scientists access to chemical structures, chemical properties, suppliers and other information in the Symyx databases directly on their… Read More
Healthy Advice Networks launches new technology solution to deliver real-time health content to physicians - July 23, 2009
Health-information provider Healthy Advice Networks, US, has announced the launch of PracticeWire, a wireless broadband technology solution that delivers real-time health content to physicians all day via wall-mounted flat-screen monitors. Strategically located in the back office, medical news and information is sourced from over 40 peer-reviewed… Read More
Medhand International makes OUP Medical Handbook series available on iPhone and iPod - July 17, 2009
Medhand International, Sweden, a supplier of Doctors reference libraries for mobile platforms, has announced the forthcoming launch of their intuitive iPhone reference book application. The first launch consists of four titles from the Oxford University Press Medical Handbook series - the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine… Read More
OCLC extends WorldCat Mobile pilot to Europe - July 9, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that the WorldCat Mobile pilot, a programme that makes collections from libraries visible through mobile devices, has been extended to Europe. Expanding the pilot to Europe means that now phones in the Netherlands, Germany,… Read More
Nature Publishing Group to produce online videos of Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting - July 6, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the Foundation Lindau Nobel prize winners Meetings at Lake Constance have signed an agreement to collaborate in the production of online videos of this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on chemistry. Produced by Nature Video, the videos will… Read More
SAE International’s Aerospace Magazine to go all digital - July 2, 2009
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, US, has announced that it will begin publishing its Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing (AEM) magazine in an all-digital, every-other-week format. The new electronic-only delivery system and schedule, slated to begin August 5, will allow for more articles that better… Read More
BMJ Group ties up with Mobile IQ to provide point-of-care medical information - June 23, 2009
Healthcare publisher The BMJ Group, UK, recently announced the launch of a service that allows health professionals across the world to get on-the-spot access to expert opinion, guidelines and the latest clinical evidence on their mobile phone. This service is being made available at no… Read More
