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CAS and Thieme Publishing Group collaborate to expand access to chemical reaction information

DatabasesJune 11, 2013

(Columbus, Ohio, 10 June 2013) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and Thieme Publishing Group have announced that hundreds of thousands of experimental procedures for chemical reactions from two prestigious Thieme organic chemistry journals will soon be available in SciFinder®, the choice for chemistry researchTM. Experimental procedures from the high-impact Thieme journals SYNLETT and SYNTHESIS from 1967…

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Elsevier signs agreement with People’s Medical Publishing House, China

Asia Pacific, PublishersJune 11, 2013

(New York, 6 June 2013) Elsevier today signed a strategic collaboration agreement with People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH), China. The announcement expands on Elsevier’s current publishing collaboration with the largest Chinese medical publisher in China. Elsevier’s collaboration with PMPH goes back to the 1990s. Since then PMPH has translated and published hundreds of Elsevier’s book…

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Presentations on getting started in digital preservation published

DigitizationJune 9, 2013

The Digital Preservation Coalition has announced that presentations from the popular DPC / BLPAC Getting Started in Digital Preservation workshop in Aberystwyth, Wales, in June are now available online. To see these, as well as the presentations from similar events in Glasgow in April and London in May click here.

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Amazon launches Kindle tablet and e-reader in China

Asia Pacific, eBooks, TechnologyJune 8, 2013

(7 June 2013, IDG News Service) After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com’s China business has finally brought the company’s Kindle tablet and Kindle eReader to the country. ComputerWorld has the story:

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China gets a rare look at its pre-revolutionary history

Asia Pacific, UncategorizedJune 8, 2013

Sidney Gamble photos, housed at Duke University Libraries will be exhibited at the Capital Library of China in Beijing (6 June 2013, Durham, NC) – A new exhibit of historical photographs at the Capital Library of China offers a rare glimpse of daily life in Beijing in the early 20th century, a turbulent period in…

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Serials Solutions Summon discovery service expands Japanese-language content with NetAdvance

Asia Pacific, ToolsJune 8, 2013

Serials Solutions、Summon ディスカバリサービスが、ネットアドバンスのコンテンツを搭載 (6 June 2013, Seattle, WA) Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is working with NetAdvance to make content in JapanKnowledge discoverable via the Summon discovery service. Metadata for 13 reference titles from the largest and most reliable provider of Japanese-language content, including encyclopedias, dictionaries and citation indexes will be indexed and available to…

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Elsevier’s digital services upgraded to provide enhanced searching and mobile capabilities

PublishersJune 6, 2013

(Philadelphia, PA, 4 June 2013) Elsevier today announced a major investment in services provided to its society partners and individual readers: a new online platform and management system for its 500+ health, medical, and life science journal-branded websites. The new online platform will provide these journal-branded websites improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial…

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ARL releases RLI 282 on library budgets, journal bundles, reference staffing

LibrariesJune 6, 2013

ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282, which features articles on ARL library budgets over the past two years, subscriptions to journal collections from large publishers, and the impact of the changing roles of librarians on reference staffing. A pre-publication version of the article about journal bundles was released earlier this year. Read…

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Harvard joins DataCite and EZID from California Digital Library

DataJune 6, 2013

(3 June 2013) Harvard recently joined DataCite, a not-for-profit organization that aims to establish easier access to research data on the internet, increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record and support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and repurposed for future study. Other members of DataCite…

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ETD 2013 registration open

Asia Pacific, EventJune 6, 2013

(6 June 2013) Registration is now open for the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, ETD 2013 taking place in Hong Kong. ETD is the key international conference to attend in order to stay abreast of developments and trends in electronic theses and dissertations initiatives around the world. This is an exciting opportunity…

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