Springer to launch SpringerMaterials at London Online Information 2009 - November 24, 2009
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced the launch of SpringerMaterials – The Landolt-Börnstein Database (www.springermaterials.com). SpringerMaterials claims to be the most comprehensive and timely resource of data in physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering. The database comprises 91,000 online documents,… Read More
HathiTrust offers full-text search of millions of digitised books and journals - November 23, 2009
The HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership among some of the US's largest academic research libraries, has announced a service that is expected to transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections. The service allows for full-text searching capabilities… Read More
Elsevier journal publishes supplement on vaccines for biothreats - November 23, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its journal Vaccine has released a supplement dedicated to vaccines for biodefence during the ‘Vaccines for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases Symposium’ in Galveston, Texas, USA. It seeks to provide a comprehensive overview on vaccines that have been… Read More
UpToDate adds Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine content to clinical information database - November 23, 2009
UpToDate, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the addition of a new specialty, Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, to its clinical information database. Emergency physicians and other healthcare professionals, who subscribe to UpToDate, can now access over 375 topics specifically devoted to emergency… Read More
GlobalSpec launches My GlobalSpec platform for Industrial Professionals - November 23, 2009
Specialised vertical search, information services and e-publishing company GlobalSpec, US, has announced the launch of its My GlobalSpec platform of workflow management tools. My GlobalSpec gives industrial professionals a single place to access, manage and save all of their vital work-related information from Read More
American Geographical Society and Wiley-Blackwell announce Co-publishing deal - November 20, 2009
The American Geographical Society (AGS) has announced a partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, after two years of negotiations and discussions between the society and publisher. Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell and the AGS will co-publish the… Read More
Elsevier publishes freely available Special Issue to mark 20th anniversary of the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child - November 20, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the publication of a Special Issue of Child Abuse and Neglect The International Journal 1989-2009 on the 20th Anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Special Issue aims to celebrate the 20th anniversary of… Read More
TechXtra launches new service, TechJournalContents - November 20, 2009
Technology search service provider TechXtra, UK, has launched a new service, TechJournalContents. The service allows users to search across the current issues of more than 4,500 scholarly technology journals from multiple publishers, in order to find the latest research articles. TechJournalContents is expected to be of… Read More
Cornell’s e-print arXiv to be made more interactive - November 20, 2009
Cornell University's arXiv project, which includes an e-print archive of scientific papers, is looking to covert the existing simple database to a more interactive one. It is being projected as a place where authors, articles, databases and readers talk to each other to help users identify… Read More
Maney Publishing set to publish the Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy - November 20, 2009
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it is set to publish the Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy (JMMT), starting 2010. JMMT is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, case reports, and reviews of the literature that contribute to the advancement of knowledge… Read More
