Wolters Kluwer Health’s ‘Buy A Bundle, Save a Bundle’ promotion provides customisable collections of reference resources at significant savings - June 10, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the 'Buy a Bundle, Save a Bundle' promotion that allows residency programs to receive significant savings when they purchase multiple medical reference titles. Savings up to 40 percent off the regular price are applied when two or more… Read More
NISO releases draft white paper summarising Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics Project for public comment - June 10, 2014
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a draft white paper summarising Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project for public comment. The initiative was launched in July 2013, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to study, propose, and… Read More
Co-Action Publishing launches European Clinical Respiratory Journal in cooperation with Nordic Respiratory Academy - June 9, 2014
Open access scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced the launch of European Clinical Respiratory Journal (ECRJ), in cooperation with the Nordic Respiratory Academy (NORA), including the Swedish Society of Respiratory Medicine, Danish Society of Respiratory Medicine, Norwegian Respiratory Society and Finnish Respiratory Society. European… Read More
Plum Print from Plum Analytics allows research impact to be assessed at a glance - June 6, 2014
Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company, has introduced a new way to visualise research impact. The Plum Print will take the data available in Plum Analytics' product PlumX™ and visually illustrate the impact of a given artifact – an article, presentation, or other… Read More
Complete suite of JBJS titles now on the HighWire Open Platform - June 6, 2014
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. and HighWire Press, Inc. have announced the launch of the complete suite of JBJS titles on the HighWire Open Platform. These include the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (jbjs.org), JBJS Case Connector, JBJS… Read More
CCC’s new content workflow solution connects knowledge workers to the content and rights information they need - June 6, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has launched its DirectPath™ content workflow solution, which connects knowledge workers instantly to the content and rights information they need. DirectPath also provides companies with real-time analytics on content usage and spending to prioritise future… Read More
SAGE to publish The British Journal of Occupational Therapy - June 5, 2014
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced that as of January 2015 it will be publishing one of the foremost occupational therapy journals, The British Journal of Occupational Therapy (BJOT). Previously self published, The British Journal of Occupational Therapy is the official research journal of… Read More
HathiTrust Research Center announces alpha release of extracted features dataset - June 5, 2014
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced the alpha release of a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter-million text volumes. Features are data attributes defined in such a way that they can be identified by a computer and analysed at scale.… Read More
Elsevier announces publication of new content for the oil and gas industry - June 4, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of new content for the oil and gas industry, including Getenergy Guide Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: Case Studies in Partnership and Collaboration by Phil Andrews and Jim Playfoot. This new book will be featured… Read More
OCLC Research launches multilingual bibliographic structure activity - June 3, 2014
In order to leverage the multilingual content in WorldCat and make it easier for users to identify resources in their preferred language and script, OCLC Research has launched the multilingual bibliographic structure activity. With this initiative to mine the data from translated works, OCLC aims to… Read More
