American Society for Microbiology announces inaugural issue of OA journal, mBio - May 19, 2010
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has launched the inaugural issue of mBio, a new open access online journal designed to make microbiology research broadly accessible. The focus of the journal is on rapid publication of cutting-edge research spanning the entire spectrum of microbiology and related… Read More
Special issue of ARL’ Research Library Issues focuses on strategies for opening up content - May 18, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published a special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) on strategies for opening up content. The special issue focuses on new approaches being deployed to increase the amount of content that is open and available to the research library… Read More
Inderscience Publishers announces four new titles - May 14, 2010
STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of four new titles. The journals are: International Journal of Business Competition and Growth; International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development Mining; International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining; and International Journal of Metaheuristics. Edited by… Read More
ACM launches new librarian resource site - May 13, 2010
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced the launch of the new ACM Digital Library Resource site at http://librarians.acm.org. The new site is expected to serve as a valuable tool for librarians, consortium administrators, subscription agents, and end users interested in… Read More
SAGE expands its suite of Therapeutic Advances journals with two new titles - May 13, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has extended its suite of Therapeutic Advances journals with the launch of a further two titles - Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease and Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism. Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease covers the drug treatment of all major chronic diseases… Read More
LexisNexis adds full-text patent records from ‘BRIC’ countries - May 12, 2010
Information solutions provider LexisNexis, US, has added full-text patent records from 'BRIC' countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to its TotalPatent research service. Patent law professionals will now gain access to full-text patent collections from patent authorities worldwide. This advantage is expected to help customers make… Read More
BioMed Central publishes thematic series to mark 10th anniversary of the Ensembl project - May 12, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, is publishing a thematic series of articles describing the construction, content and current use of Ensembl's resources, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Ensembl project’s launch. The Ensembl project is a joint venture between the European Bioinformatics Institute and… Read More
RSNA launches new Librarian Guide website - May 10, 2010
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has created an updated Librarian Guide website, RSNA.org/librarians. The website seeks to build awareness and provide information regarding its two leading medical journals - Radiology and RadioGraphics. The site caters to corporate, academic and hospital librarians and includes features… Read More
SirsiDynix announces customer training through SirsiDynix Mentor - May 10, 2010
Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced that customer training will now be available through SirsiDynix Mentor, an online learning management tool for the benefit of customer libraries and their staff. The tool will help library managers and staff access, track, and report on training… Read More
EBSCO Publishing launches new resource for its Spanish-speaking users - May 7, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has released a new resource for its Spanish-speaking users. Referencia Latina is the definitive general reference resource for the rapidly growing native Spanish-speaking population in the US covering issues in Latin America and Spain, as well as US and… Read More
