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Knovel Launches New Cloud-Based Platform
Knovel unveiled a fully redesigned platform offering more precise search results, a simplified user interface, enhanced navigation capabilities and more. Knovel offers a cloud-based application that integrates technical information from more than 100 engineering publishers and societies with analytical and search tools. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - September 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Preserving the Digital Past with the Open Data Project
What happens if the lights go out? It's a question that strikes fear into the hearts of content providers everywhere--especially those that have transitioned from preserving hard copies to digital storage. Decisions about how to protect content-in this case, digital content--should be based both on an assessment of the purpose and value of that content and the development of a policy that outlines what is stored and how it is stored. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - November 20, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Is Open Access Destroying Academic Publishers?
The digital age has given way to an open access renaissance - allowing for the free flow of information traditionally bound up in scholarly journals and academic publications. But when an influential analyst said that a European push toward open access could significantly hurt academic publisher Reed Elsevier's bottom line, many STM publishers took a second look at this model. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - October 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Apress Unveils Open Access book Publishing for the Tech Community
Apress, a publisher of technology books, announced the launch of ApressOpen, a program that offers technology companies and professionals the opportunity to publish technical and business content under an open access model. With ApressOpen, content will be freely available through online distribution channels and electronic formats with the goal of disseminating professionally edited and technically reviewed content to the worldwide community. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - October 9, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Elsevier and Ex Libris Group Announce Collaboration
Elsevier, a provider of STM information products and services, and Ex Libris Group, a provider of library automation solutions, announced a collaborative initiative that will enable joint customers to search the Scopus abstracting and indexing database via the Ex Libris Primo Central Index. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - October 2, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Wiley Launches WIREs Energy and Environment
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary review publication called WIREs Energy and Environment. This publication will serve as an interdisciplinary review work which the company says will highlight the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research and education. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - August 1, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Springer Acquires Book Portfolio from Canopus
Scientific publisher, Springer Science + Business Media, announced the company has acquired UK-based Canopus Academic Publishing. Canopus is a publisher that specializes in the subjects of physics and astronomy. With this acquisition, Springer will absorb more than 50 published or planned works. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - August 1, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Leveraging the Web to Overcome Challenges in the Developing World
The web: It's everywhere. It's a modern miracle. An amazing technological advancement that, when combined with mobile devices and wireless broadband, provides humanity with the promise of a more equitable dispersement of information and wealth...err, hypothetically. Despite the ubiquity of technology and the widespread availability of the mobile web, there are many places in the world where information critical to survival isn't available in a way that's relevant to those who need it. But it doesn't have to be that way. All that's needed is an understanding of the actual problems in need of solving. (Source: EContent RSS F...
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - July 5, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Edanz Launches Journal Selector
In an effort to help scientists go global with their research, Edanz has launched Journal Selector as a part of its Journal Advisor platform. By using Journal Selector, researchers will be able to match an author's non-English research to journals that publish articles on similar topics and can convert the research conducted into English. By converting research into English, Edanz feels researchers will have a much greater chance of getting published. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - June 12, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Why Ebooks Fail as Research Tools
A student turns her tablet on to read three chapters assigned to her this week. As she reads, she comes across a topic that she would like to learn more about. She leaves her ebook, opens a web browser and runs a search. The ebook might be a great source of information on a single topic, but it fails as a research tool. Why? (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - March 26, 2012 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Wolters Kluwer Health Adds OA Medknow Journals
Wolters Kluwer Health acquired Medknow Publications, an open access (OA) STM journal publisher based in India, in a deal that expands its Medical Research business to developing markets. The acquisition also increases Wolters Kluwer Health's offering of locally written content. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - December 7, 2011 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news