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Semantico launches AccessScience from McGraw-Hill Professional

Semantico launches AccessScience from McGraw-Hill Professional

Semantico, suppliers of digital solutions for scholarly and professional publishers, is proud to announce the launch of a newly designed AccessScience platform from McGraw-Hill Professional, delivered using Semantico’s Scolaris platform. AccessScience is one product in the family of Access digital platforms and solutions in McGraw-Hill Professional’s online portfolio serving the science, engineering, and healthcare markets. McGraw-Hill Professional and Semantico have[Read More...]

by — December 4, 2013 — Digital
Content from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Now Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™

Content from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Now Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), an agency of the Department of Commerce, is the latest content source to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Patent attorneys, patent agents and others involved in intellectual property management will benefit from the addition of USPTO’s Patent Application Full Text and Patent Full Text to EDS. USPTO[Read More...]

by — December 3, 2013 — Digital
Ex Libris’ Rosetta to ensure permanent access to research data, web sites and digital collections of the Bavarian Library Network

Ex Libris’ Rosetta to ensure permanent access to research data, web sites and digital collections of the Bavarian Library Network

Ex Libris Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that the Bavarian Library Network (BVB) has selected Ex Libris Rosetta to provide long-term preservation services to all the academic libraries in the state. This decision extends the existing Rosetta implementation at the Bavarian State Library (BSB) to all university libraries in Bavaria. In 2009,[Read More...]

by — December 3, 2013 — Digital
EBSCO Information Services Named to the 2013 EContent 100

EBSCO Information Services Named to the 2013 EContent 100

EBSCO Information Services announces that it has been named to the 2013 EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry. Selection of the companies for the EContent 100 List falls to a team of judges including editors from Information Today, Inc., EContent magazine contributing editors, and other industry experts. “In 2013, our task was to narrow[Read More...]

by — December 3, 2013 — Digital
Dr. Howard E. Michel Elected 2014 IEEE President-elect

Dr. Howard E. Michel Elected 2014 IEEE President-elect

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced that Dr. Howard E. Michel, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass-Dartmouth and engineering consultant, has been elected 2014 IEEE President-elect. Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors, Michel will begin serving his one-year term on January 1, 2015, and will succeed 2014[Read More...]

by — December 3, 2013 — World
Elsevier launches new open access journal – Current Plant Biology

Elsevier launches new open access journal – Current Plant Biology

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of a new open access journal: Current Plant Biology. The field of fundamental plant science is increasingly becoming an interdisciplinary domain of research, now including physics, mathematics and chemistry disciplines. This trend is largely fuelled by the last decade’s technical advances and discoveries which[Read More...]

by — December 3, 2013 — Open Access
RSNA Partners with TEMIS to Deliver Smarter Content to its Global Community of Radiologists

RSNA Partners with TEMIS to Deliver Smarter Content to its Global Community of Radiologists

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA®), the leading international society of radiologists, medical physicists and other medical professionals, today announced it has signed a strategic Software as a Service (SaaS) agreement with TEMIS, the provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions who received the 2013 CODiE Award for Best Semantic Solution with Luxid®. RSNA hosts the world’s premier radiology forum,[Read More...]

by — December 3, 2013 — Digital
Roger Brisson joins Ex Libris as Strategy Director Europe

Roger Brisson joins Ex Libris as Strategy Director Europe

Ex Libris Group®, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that Roger Brisson has been appointed Strategy Director for Ex Libris Europe. As the former head of Metadata Services at Boston University, which has run Ex Libris Alma for the past year, Mr Brisson brings with him a wealth of real-world knowledge of academic[Read More...]

by — December 2, 2013 — European
Saudi Digital Library and Nature Publishing Group sign agreement

Saudi Digital Library and Nature Publishing Group sign agreement

The Saudi Digital Library (SDL), part of The Saudi Ministry of Higher Education, has signed a major agreement with Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Thirty Saudi Arabian universities, members of the Saudi Digital Library Consortium, will have access to all journals on nature.com until 31st of December 2014, including six years of archive content. NPG’s journals include the prestigious Nature and[Read More...]

by — December 2, 2013 — World
Elsevier in deal with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University to expand access to scientific publications

Elsevier in deal with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University to expand access to scientific publications

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today it has reached an agreement with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) to grant access to ScienceDirect’s Journal Backfile Collection and  e-Book Collection as well as Reaxys® to its researchers. In addition, Elsevier will host two of FEFU’s open access journals on ScienceDirect. FEFU plays a key role in[Read More...]

by — December 2, 2013 — World
Charles M. Lieber receives the first Nano Research Award

Charles M. Lieber receives the first Nano Research Award

The first Nano Research Award will be given to Charles M. Lieber, one of the world’s leading scientists in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The award, which is presented for the first time this year, is sponsored by Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and Springer and is accompanied by US $10,000. Prof. Lieber has been invited to give a keynote speech at the[Read More...]

by — December 2, 2013 — Editorial
New advanced network to inspire a future of innovation in research and education

New advanced network to inspire a future of innovation in research and education

Jisc is today set to increase the country’s global competitiveness by launching one of the world’s most advanced computer networks: Janet6. This advanced network has been designed to address future demands for high capacity connectivity, enabling vast amounts of data to be exchanged in seconds. Designed specifically for research and education, Janet6 is highly scalable up to 8.8 terabits of capacity and uses[Read More...]

by — November 27, 2013 — European
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