The American Geographical Society (AGS) has announced a partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, after two years of negotiations and discussions between the society and publisher. Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell and the AGS will co-publish the journals and , beginning in January 2010.
STM Elsevier has announced the publication of a Special Issue of 1989-2009 on the 20th Anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Special Issue provides an overview of two decades of development in the areas of child maltreatment research, data collection, and reporting practice, as required by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Technology search service provider TechXtra has launched a new service, TechJournalContents. The service allows users to search across the current issues of more than 4,500 scholarly technology journals from multiple publishers, in order to find the latest research articles.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and partners have launched DataONE, a global data access and preservation network projected to make vast amounts of information related to environmental research readily available. The network, which has received a $20 million grant through the National Science Foundation DataNet programme, will also receive $700,000 over five years.
Cornell University's arXiv project, which includes an e-print archive of scientific papers, is looking to covert the existing simple database to a more interactive one. It is being projected as a place where authors, articles, databases and readers talk to each other to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work.
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced that it is set to publish the (JMMT), starting 2010. The journal will be hosted online by Maney's technology partner IngentaConnect, where readers can sign up for Table of Contents alerts to this and other related Maney titles.
Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education has announced the second edition of , an introductory geology textbook. The new edition introduces the world of investigative geology using a visuals-rich format and new digital teaching and learning tools to engage students in science inside and outside of the classroom.
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the physician-members of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, will receive free access to MD Consult its electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool. Elsevier will donate a free subscription to MSF for each annual individual MD Consult subscription purchased between November 16 and December 18, 2009.
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a major upgrade to its SAGE Journals Online (SJO) platform. More than 560 SAGE journals will be available on the next generation platform, supported by HighWire Press' 2.0 technology (H2O), by the end of 2010.
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has announced a publishing partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the as well as the new title
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it has agreed to participate in the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) of more than 1,000 US Government member libraries to facilitate their access to the ACM Digital Library (DL). FEDLINK is the business subsidiary of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC).
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) E-Science Working Group surveyed ARL member libraries in the fall of 2009 to gather data on the state of engagement with e-science issues. An overview of initial survey findings was presented by E-Science Working Group Chair Wendy Lougee, University Librarian, McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota Libraries, at the October ARL Membership Meeting.
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced a partnership with Quertle LLC to add over 60,000 published articles into the latest version of Quertle's online biomedical search tool. Quertle is projected as a query site for more effective searching of scientific literature.
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Bavarian State Library has selected the Rosetta digital preservation system, which will preserve and provide access to the extensive and rapidly growing digital collections of the Bavarian State Library. The Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, Web sites, and other digitally born and digitised materials, for perpetuity.
Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD) has announced updates for two of its leading BIM solutions, SmartBIM Library (SBL) and SmartBIM QTO, to help Autodesk Revit users increase efficiency and organization in the design phase. SmartBIM Library is a Revit family cataloging tool for architects, designers and engineers that provides search and management capabilities. SmartBIM QTO allows architects and engineers to rapidly perform quantity takeoffs from a Revit project and generate design-level cost estimates using RSMeans cost data.
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