SAE International publishes new edition of Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles - April 29, 2016
SAE International has announced the fifth edition of Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles, featuring significantly updated and expanded information. The detailed presentation of fundamental aerodynamics principles that influence and improve vehicle design have made Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles the engineer's "source" for information. This fifth edition… Read More
Elsevier announces six new oil, gas and pipeline engineering books at offshore technology conference - April 28, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Fundamentals of Applied Reservoir Engineering, an invaluable reference for industry professionals wishing to understand how reservoirs fundamentally work and how a reservoir engineer begins the performance process. Elsevier also announced the second edition of Introduction to Enhanced Recovery… Read More
ProQuest launches key regional databases - April 27, 2016
ProQuest has announced the launch of nine regional databases of locally published scholarly journals across all major disciplines. With over 3,000 academic titles across the nine databases, published by scholarly organisations and societies, educational institutions, and academic presses, each collection represents hundreds of the most authoritative… Read More
GeoScienceWorld unveils new, fully integrated website - April 27, 2016
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) and HighWire Press, Inc. have announced the launch of GSW’s new, modern, and fully integrated website. GeoScienceWorld.org now provides a single source for affordable access to top quality Earth science content from leading society publishers including… Read More
Second Editor’s Draft of EPUB 3.1 now available for review - April 27, 2016
The EPUB 3 Working Group has announced that the second Editor's Draft of EPUB 3.1 is now available for community review. The previous Editors Draft, published in January, included some potentially controversial changes, in effect as 'trial balloons'. Based on community feedback, some of these… Read More
Altmetric launches Altmetric Badges for Books - April 26, 2016
Altmetrics data provider Altmetric has announced the launch of Altmetric Badges for Books, enabling publishers to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and its individual chapters have received. Now available on content that is identified by ISBN (International Standard Book… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches SAGE Business Cases - April 20, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of SAGE Business Cases, the first comprehensive business case collection created specifically for the library market. The discipline-wide collection of case studies enables students and researchers to analyse real-world challenges and take on the roles of decision-makers in… Read More
SPARC and Johns Hopkins University Libraries collaborate to launch resource analyzing US federal data sharing policies - April 19, 2016
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University Libraries, has released a new resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding U.S. federal funder research data sharing policies. This free tool, launched at datasharing.sparcopen.org, provides a detailed analysis… Read More
New enhanced online edition of flagship textbook Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology launched - April 18, 2016
Publisher Wiley has released the 9th Edition of the essential Rook's Textbook of Dermatology with a revised online edition offering a package of enhanced features built by Semantico. With a redesigned platform to boost search, navigation, discovery and usability, the fully-responsive online… Read More
SirsiDynix unveils new learning management system for SirsiDynix Support Center - April 18, 2016
Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced the release of Mentor 2.0, the new learning management system for the SirsiDynix Support Center. Mentor 2.0 includes an intuitive new user-interface as well as simplified access to educational resources. The Mentor 2.0 system went live in Q1.… Read More
