New application provides scientists easy access to key government data - December 13, 2010
Computer scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will work with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, to enhance scientific research via the World Wide Web. Government agencies around the world reportedly make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day. However, this data is… Read More
Rush-Copley Medical Center selects Thomson Reuters Pharmacy Xpert to improve medication management - December 9, 2010
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Rush-Copley Medical Center has selected its Pharmacy Xpert to more effectively manage medication therapy and improve pharmacist efficiency. Pharmacy Xpert is a one-of-a-kind clinical intelligence dashboard that helps hospital pharmacists better manage medication therapy to improve outcomes,… Read More
GenomeQuest adds China sequence patents to IP research solution - December 7, 2010
GenomeQuest, a US-based provider of sequence data management (SDM) products, has announced that it has expanded its content for patent search to include sequences filed at SIPO, the patent office of China. More than 40,000 sequences from over 5000 Chinese patents are already indexed and searchable… Read More
WIT research group to lead EU project to provide increased security - December 6, 2010
A team of researchers in Waterford Institute of Technology's TSSG (Telecommunications Software and Systems Group) were recently appointed as lead co-ordinators of ENDORSE, a €3.7 million EU-wide research project to create technical and legal framework for data management, to prevent the accidental… Read More
NARA and NTIS in deal to preserve digital scientific records - December 2, 2010
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) have announced an agreement ensuring long-term preservation and access to the NTIS collection of authenticated and secured digital scientific, technical, and engineering information (STEI). It is expected that the results of this… Read More
CABI’s full-text articles now total 100,000 - November 30, 2010
Life sciences publisher CABI, UK, has announced that it now has 100,000 full-text articles available to subscribers of its leading databases on CAB Direct. CABI started its full-text programme four years ago, and is now adding 33,000 articles, including journal papers and conference proceedings, each… Read More
Johns Hopkins University Libraries join HathiTrust to expand access - November 30, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Johns Hopkins' initial role as part of HathiTrust… Read More
BMC Medical Education accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters - November 30, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Education has been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters. The journal will receive its first impact factor in June 2011. BMC Medical Education publishes articles on a range of topics relating to… Read More
The Biodiversity Heritage Library adds 14,000 records to WorldCat - November 25, 2010
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the Biodiversity Heritage Library has added more than 14,000 records of digitised materials, brought together from 12 institutions, to WorldCat. The Biodiversity Heritage Library claims to be one of the world's largest repositories of full-text digitised legacy biodiversity… Read More
VTLS to implement VITAL repository for National Centre for Vocational Education Research’ VOCED database - November 25, 2010
Library automation solutions provider VTLS Inc., US, has announced that it has been selected to implement the VITAL repository for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) VOCED database. The project, which began last April, is going to be a multi-phase process and will involve… Read More
