The GeJL is a discovery service for global eJournal literature published in open access format. Launched in 2014 by World eBooks Library Ltd from UK and Informatics India Limited from India, the Global eJournal Library provides seamless access to millions of open access journal articles published in over 17,000 journals from over 8,000 publishers. By…
(13 October 2014, Stuttgart) Thieme Chemistry has relaunched its web website for chemists. Along with a new design, the expanded http://www.thieme-chemistry.com/ features improved technology and an optimized user-friendly interface. Users now enjoy even faster access to the comprehensive content as well as Thieme Group products for chemists. The comprehensive product portfolio focused on organic chemistry…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (13 October 2014) Ruth’s Rankings 3 introduced the metrics used in rankings. In this article, we look at the information companies who provide the underlying data. As of October 2014, UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory lists over 145,000 scholarly academic journals of which about 50,000 are not in English. Scopus estimates that there…
(10 October 2014, Bellingham, Washington, USA) Research papers published by six 2014 Nobel Prize recipients whose accomplishments in physics and chemistry have been enabled by photonics are being made freely available in the SPIE Digital Library through the end of 2014. The innovations recognized for this year’s Nobel prizes in Physics and in Chemistry utilize…
(10 October 2014) Monsash University Library has constructed a Turnitin Library Guide to help students use Turnitin when submitting assignments. A video explains Turnitin and a FAQ provides answers. The guide is divided into six sections: What is Turnitin? How do I use Turnitin? The Originality Report How do I increase originality? Faculty policies, and Frequently…
(9 October 2014) The Australian Red Cross is looking for a volunteer to help the National Library of Laos, Vientiane, improve its management systems and strengthen the skills of support staff. Applications close 27 October 2014. The ALIA website has the details.
(9 October 2014) The folks at Google Scholar on its 10th anniversary are looking at how scholarship and citation patterns have changed as publications and archives moved online and comprehensive relevance-ranked search became available to everyone. As the next article in the 10th anniversary series, Google has published a study examining the evolution of the…
(12 October 2014) Jurn.org notes that that Paperity has ripped all the Springer.com open access articles from hybrid journals, into a TOCs directory and article pages, along with a basic search tool. The list of linked journals is here. (9 October 2014) With the beginning of the new academic year, Paperity, the first multidisciplinary aggregator…
(8 October 2014, New York) Springer’s signature materials database – SpringerMaterials – has gotten a total overhaul to make the new site more nimble and user friendly. And the changes are far more than cosmetic as the entire site has been migrated to the same technology as the publisher’s flagship platform, SpringerLink. By leveraging the same…
(8 October 2014) Galen Charlton in his Meta Interchange blog has written that “It came to light on Monday that the latest version of Adobe Digital Editions is sending metadata on eBooks that are read through the application to an Adobe server — in clear text.” He says that “by sending the information in the…
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