Symyx unveils hosted informatics software for pharma researchers - October 19, 2009
Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced the launch of hosted informatics software for researchers working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries and academia. The new hosted offerings, to be accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model, will seek to… Read More
ACS Publications announces compliance with Release 3 of COUNTER - September 17, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division has announced full compliance with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is a global initiative serving librarians, publishers and their intermediaries by instituting standards for… Read More
Ovid expands its Shibboleth compliance to include the Japanese Federation - August 31, 2009
Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has expanded its Shibboleth compliance for OvidSP, its market-leading search and discovery platform, to include the Japanese Shibboleth Federation. Now, institutions in Japan that are part of that country’s Shibboleth Federation can establish authorisation rights… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces immediate availability of EndNote X3 for Mac OS X - August 27, 2009
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the immediate availability of EndNote X3 for Mac OS X - the bibliographic management software that includes EndNote Web and is used by millions of researchers, librarians and students worldwide. EndNote X3 claims to increase productivity for researchers… Read More
EBSCO offers SUSHI Software Development Kit - August 14, 2009
Information service company EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), Netherlands, has developed an open source software development kit (SDK) for developing clients and servers for the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI). The SDK will assist content providers in implementing SUSHI – a key requirement for being compliant… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health launches ProVation Care Plans - August 7, 2009
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has unveiled ProVation Care Plans, an innovative software solution that arms nurses, pharmacists, therapists and other caregivers with the actionable evidence they need to effectively enhance practice, improve patient safety and demonstrate compliance with credentialing and regulatory… Read More
Semantico implements Shibboleth for Brill - July 24, 2009
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has completed an upgrade of SAMS, its industry-leading access management system, on sites created for its client Koninklijke Brill NV, to provide the Shibboleth access mechanism for scholarly publishing. This is one of a number of Shibboleth implementations that… Read More
ACM teams up with Scholarly iQ to unveil web analytics platform - June 16, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is providing its corporate and academic library customers with an enhanced web analytics platform to measure the usage of the ACM Digital Library (DL) full-text and bibliographic database. The new platform, provided by Scholarly iQ, enables… Read More
Nine Natural Resources Canada libraries migrate to Evergreen automation software - June 10, 2009
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Library, a 13-library organisation, has gone live with the first phase of its migration to Evergreen, a consortial-quality open-source library automation software. The migration includes the seven locations for NRCan Library's Canadian Forestry Center Library as well as two locations for its… Read More
Nstein launches upgraded version of Text Mining Engine - June 8, 2009
Nstein Technologies, Inc., a Canada-based provider of online publishing solutions for newspapers, magazines and online content providers, has announced the launch of TME 5, an upgrade to its Text Mining Engine. New features include Web 3.0 compliance, a host of linguistic enhancements and a suite of… Read More
