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Wolters Kluwer Health helps healthcare institutions become a JBI-endorsed evidence-based organization

ToolsFebruary 13, 2013

(New York, NY, 11February 2013) Wolters Kluwer Health, the exclusive distribution channel for the Joanna Briggs Institute’s (JBI) complete evidence-based practice (EBP) resources, now supports healthcare institutions who want to attain JBI’s Endorsement programme promoting high standards of evidence-based practice and policy. The addition of JBI’s EBP Management and Assessment tools on the Ovid platform…

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Macquarie University selects Ex Libris Alma

Libraries, ToolsFebruary 7, 2013

(Adelaide, Australia, 4 February 2013). Ex Libris® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, has announced that Macquarie University has selected the Alma library management solution. By adding Alma to the Primo® discovery and delivery solution, which the Macquarie community uses for searching the university library’s local and global collections, Macquarie…

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Medlantis: The destination for online radiology education

ToolsJanuary 28, 2013

(New York/Stuttgart, January 2013) Thieme and the University Health Network of Toronto are proud to announce the launch of Medlantis, a powerful online tool for radiology professionals, educators, and students. Medlantis is organized into individual modules that contain video lectures and links to relevant Thieme eRadiology and RadCases content. It is accessible from any computer,…

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New thesaurus for astronomers

ToolsJanuary 27, 2013

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers. The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use within the…

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Inviting community engagement on building a bibliographic roadmap

ToolsJanuary 15, 2013

Last fall, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation generously awarded the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) with a grant to support an initiative that will develop a community roadmap toward a new bibliographic exchange environment. The bibliographic roadmap initiative aims to bring together as diverse a set of stakeholders as possible to build agreement on a common development path for…

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HighWire incorporates article-level metrics with ImpactStory

Databases, eJournals, ToolsJanuary 7, 2013

(Palo Alto, CA 18 December 2012.) HighWire Press is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic collaboration with ImpactStory, a researcher led, non-profit organization with a drive to help redefine the impact of research articles. Article level metrics monitor the conversations around an article, as a complement to citation reports which measure a…

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Embrace “information overload” with Cases Database

Databases, ToolsJanuary 7, 2013

(10 December 2012) BioMed Central has launched a new semantically-enriched search tool, Cases Database, which aims to enhance the discovery, filtering and aggregation of medical case reports from many journals. Open access to journal articles published under with Creative Commons licenses which permit text mining enable the literature to be reused as a resource for scientific…

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American Chemical Society launches major new resource on climate science

ToolsJanuary 7, 2013

Washington, 3 December 2012 — The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, today launched a new web-based resource to enhance understanding and communication of the science underpinning global climate change. Intended for ACS’ more than 164,000 members and others, the American Chemical Society Climate Science Toolkit is available at http://www.acs.org/climatescience. The project, more…

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Libramatic provide a fully automated smart phone and web based library system

ToolsDecember 24, 2012

Managing a library or CD collection is a tedious task. Adding books to the system for example, requires that all a book’s information is manually typed by the librarian. Libramatic solves this, as well as many of a librarian’s other day-to-day problems. With Libramatic, the only thing a librarian has to do is scan the…

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Credo Reference signs over 500 Literati customers in 9 months

ToolsDecember 23, 2012

Credo Reference, a company that believes the world would be a better place if more decisions and ideas were powered by knowledge, has announced that over 500 academic and public libraries around the globe have licensed its Literati solution. Literati helps end-users not only easily discover and use their library’s authoritative content, but also understand…

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