(Amsterdam, 17 April 2013) Elsevier has launched a Japanese user interface to Scopus.The interface provides Japanese users with the ability to find their way through the product in their language. Japanese users are now able to find the research information they are looking for more efficiently – expanding beyond Scopus’ basic search functionalities to utilizing…
A team from Beyond Access visited Myanmar recently to gain an understanding of the potential for the country’s 5,000 libraries to contribute to development goals. A country brief is the result of that visit. Beyond Access examines key elements of Myanmar’s rapid development and highlights the essential role of public libraries in the development process.…
(17 April 2013) Today, CWTS Leiden University launches the Leiden Ranking 2013. The ranking measures the scientific performance of 500 major universities worldwide, using a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators. It is presented via an intuitive and user-friendly website interface: www.leidenranking.com. Source normalization is a new CWTS-developed approach that has the advantage of being independent…
Primary Research Group, publisher of research reports and surveys about libraries, is surveying public, academic and special libraries worldwide for a report on their database licensing practices. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the report generated from the survey data. Participants are listed in the report but answers are confidential. To take the survey…
(April 16, 2013) Today, SPARC released a new community resource, Article-Level Metrics — A SPARC Primer, delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used. This new SPARC primer is designed to…
(New York, 16 April 2013 /PRNewswire/) McGraw-Hill Education today announced that it has formed a collaboration with ePals Corporation, an education media company and the world’s leading global learning network. The partnership pairs world-class content from McGraw-Hill Networks, McGraw-Hill Education’s award-winning digital social studies learning program for Grades 6-12, with ePals’ global community and social…
(16 April 2013) The University of East Anglia, UK, and the Sainsbury Institute for Art (SIfA) are looking for a suitably qualified candidate for a full-time, fully-funded PhD studentship on an aspect of South Asian Decorative Arts, to commence 1 October 2013. Full details are available to download here: SIfA studentship. And applications can be…
OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations which are free to access and read online. More here: http://oatd.org/
(Geneva, 12 April 2013) The addition, this month, of over ten million documents from the national patent collection of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dating from 1790 to the present day, has expanded WIPO’s PATENTSCOPE to over 28 million searchable patent documents. The PATENTSCOPE search service is a valuable technical resource that…
(London, UK (PRWEB) 15 April 2013) Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group’s leading eTextbook solution, and B.i. Publications Pvt. Ltd., India’s largest distributor of scientific, technical and medical content to the academic and professional communities, have agreed to form a joint venture, Ingram-B.i. Pvt. Ltd., to launch Ingram’s comprehensive VitalSource Bookshelf® eTextbook platform to…
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