Scotland’s shared digital library initiative to widen access for educational institutions - March 10, 2009
Scotland's university researchers are set to benefit from Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL), a shared digital library that will widen access to over 1,500 specialist journals and publications. JISC Collections negotiated this pilot scheme, which will be led by the Scottish Confederation of University and… Read More
Springer India launches Indian edition of Dentistry - March 10, 2009
Springer India Pvt. Ltd., in collaboration with FMC, part of the specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media, has announced the inaugural issue of the Indian edition of Dentistry, the UK Business Magazine of the Year 2008. First published in 1995, Dentistry claims to be the UK's… Read More
American Business Media launches whitepaper on latest tech for B2B media firms - March 10, 2009
American Business Media, an association of business information providers, has announced the availability of a new whitepaper that helps B2B media companies leverage Web 2.0 and social media tactics and technologies. Created by ABM's Media Marketing Committee, the whitepaper is entitled "Leveraging… Read More
ARL publishes first e-only bimonthly report – Research Library Issues - March 9, 2009
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published its first e-only bimonthly report, Research Library Issues (RLI), which now sports a new look and title. The e-only format enables broad distribution of the articles and the introduction of new features, such as audio excerpts from speaker… Read More
RSC Publishing set to launch two new journals - March 9, 2009
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, UK, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has announced the autumn 2009 launch of two new peer-reviewed titles - Nanoscale and Analytical Methods. Nanoscale will be a collaborative venture between RSC Publishing and the National Center for Nanoscience and… Read More
Maney Publishing announces 10 new journals for 2009 - March 9, 2009
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced ten new journals for 2009, taking Maney's list to almost 90 titles. The new journals are: Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology; International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology; Ming Studies; T'ang Studies; Dutch Crossing; Early Medieval China; Folk Life; Italian Culture;… Read More
ResNet update for the Q4 2008 now available - March 6, 2009
The latest quarterly update of the ResNet Mammalian database is now available for subscribers to download. The ResNet 6 update includes new data from PubMed for the Q4 2008. The ResNet Mammalian includes curated signaling and cellular process regulation pathways, ontologies and annotations. Also, it contains… Read More
Faculty of 1000s launch new journals – F1000 Biology Reports and F1000 Medicine Reports - March 5, 2009
Expert-driven article evaluation services Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine are each launching a journal to complement their service. Most of the content in the new journals, called F1000 Reports, are already filtered for importance by Faculty of 1000's… Read More
Thomson Reuters launches InCites - March 5, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the launch of InCites - a web-based solution that provides users with the tools needed to demonstrate the impact and importance of their institution's research. Through InCites, Thomson Reuters seeks to provide its customers with… Read More
New COUNTER statistics interface for IOP Publishing - March 5, 2009
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced that librarians with subscriptions to IOP Publishing titles can now access COUNTER Release 3 results, via a new interface called MPS Insight, ahead of the compulsory deadline of August 2009. MPS Insight is a new… Read More
