Nature Publishing Group announces free service to archive on behalf of authors - July 9, 2008
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, is initiating a free service to help authors fulfil funder and institutional mandates. The service, slated for launch later this year, will initially be open to authors publishing original research articles in Nature, the Nature research titles and the… Read More
Springer publishes 5,000th volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science - July 9, 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the publication of the 5,000th volume in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The series provides scientifically reliable information on computer science in about 200,000 articles. LNCS claims to be one of the world's most authoritative computer science… Read More
Swets launches latest technical update to its SwetsWise portfolio - July 9, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the launch of SwetsWise - Release 5.1, the latest technical update to its pioneering SwetsWise portfolio of products and services. Release 5.1 implements a whole host of additional features and functionalities into SwetsWise Subscriptions, the core focus of the… Read More
EC launches European Research Infrastructures portal along with ESF - July 8, 2008
The European Commission (EC), in collaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF), France, has launched a web portal on European Research Infrastructures (RI). The portal, available at http://www.riportal.eu/, allows access to data collected as part of a recent… Read More
American Association for Cancer Research launches cancer prevention journal - July 8, 2008
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) recently launched a new peer-reviewed scientific journal - Cancer Prevention Research. The journal claims to be the world's first peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated solely to the topic of cancer prevention. Cancer Prevention Research focuses on building a translational bridge… Read More
AVMA Collections highlight disaster preparedness and response - July 7, 2008
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), US, has announced that it has made available on its website a new installment of AVMA Collections, a web-based monograph series. AVMA Collections is designed to spotlight those articles from the AVMA scientific journals that have the greatest practical application… Read More
NISO/ALPSP release best practices for journal article versions - July 4, 2008
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), in partnership with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), has published the Recommended Practice Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group (NISO-RP-8-2008). The publication is designed to provide… Read More
US Department of Energy launches open data repository - July 4, 2008
The US Department of Energy has launched the DOE Data Explorer (DDE), a tool to find scientific research data generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The data that can be found include computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive… Read More
Thieme launches WinkingSkull.com PLUS - July 4, 2008
Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, recently announced the launch of WinkingSkull.com PLUS, an ancillary component to the anatomy study aid, WinkingSkull.com. While the website remains publicly accessible, PLUS is available exclusively to buyers of the Atlas of Anatomy. A practical resource… Read More
LWW upgrades reference and training tool for nurses with enhanced features - July 2, 2008
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that the latest version of its reference and training tool Nursing Procedures and Skills provides hospitals with over 200 additional pediatric procedures. It also offers upgraded search, editing and archiving capabilities. Nursing… Read More
