FIZ Karlsruhe offers Chinese patent information on STN - April 18, 2012
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, is offering the Chinese full-text patent file CNFULL on online science and patent information service STN. This is projected to enable researchers and patent specialists to broaden their complex patent searches to Chinese patent full-texts in order to determine patentability, state of the… Read More
MetaPress announces three new levels of service for publishers - April 18, 2012
MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced three targeted product offerings to meet the needs of publishers, regardless of size. The three levels of service - Tailor-Made, Standard, and Essential - target the particular needs of large and small publishers. … Read More
Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online now available at academic institutions worldwide - April 18, 2012
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the availability of the Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a multi-year global digitisation and publishing programme. Nineteenth Century Collections Online brings together rare primary source materials – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs and more –… Read More
Co-Action Publishing and International Society for Extracellular Vesicles partner to launch the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles - April 17, 2012
Open access (OA) scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced a partnership with the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles to launch the peer-reviewed journal - Journal of Extracellular Vesicles (JEV). The society’s decision to launch a new journal is based on… Read More
Publishing Technology and CNPIEC launch digital publishing platform for Chinese libraries - April 17, 2012
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, and the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation (CNPIEC) are set to launch the Digital Gateway, a digital publishing platform for Chinese libraries, in a special ceremony at the London Book Fair. The launch event will take… Read More
OverDrive to preview library eBook data at London Book Fair - April 16, 2012
OverDrive, a digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and other digital content, will announce the first of a series of 'Big Data' reports analysing billions of eBook impressions and other data collected from across its network of 18,000 public and school libraries at the ongoing London Book… Read More
Elsevier launches new journal – Algal Research - April 13, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal - Algal Research. The first issue of the journal will be published in May 2012 and further introduced at the 2nd Algal Biomas, Biofuels and Bioproducts conference, which will take place in San Diego,… Read More
EBSCO Publishing announces new addition to its Collection of Digital Archives - April 13, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced the release of the latest database in its Historic Digital Archive Collection, The African American Historical Serials Collection. Developed in conjunction with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this digital collection includes African American periodicals, annuals and… Read More
Amazon Web Services launches Amazon CloudSearch, a fully managed and highly scalable search service - April 13, 2012
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), part of US-based online retailer Amazon.com, has introduced Amazon CloudSearch, a new service that allows customers to easily integrate a fast, fully managed and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. Developers simply create a search domain,… Read More
Elsevier launches ClinicalKey to bring fast, trusted and comprehensive medical content to clinicians - April 11, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced ClinicalKey, the next generation of online clinical information resources. ClinicalKey draws answers from the largest collection of clinical resources, covering every medical and surgical specialty - eliminating physicians’ reliance on less accurate sources. ClinicalKey's content includes more than 700… Read More
