 PETA honours Elsevier with inaugural Progressive Medical Education Software Award |
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STM publisher Elsevier was recently awarded the inaugural Progressive Medical Education Software Award by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The award was presented to the locally-developed Elsevier Animal Simulator software, which recreates a virtual animal laboratory for students to learn without having to maim or kill animals for dissection. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Clinicians worldwide quickly adopting Wolters Kluwer’s new clinical podcast, ‘UpToDate Talk’ |
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Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that clinicians worldwide are quickly adopting the innovative new clinical podcast, ‘UpToDate Talk’ as a convenient way to keep up with new developments in medical research. First launched in December 2015, the podcast was featured on iTunes’ ‘New and Noteworthy’ list for Science & Medicine, with the first five episodes streamed nearly 36,000 times in the first four months. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Cardiff Metropolitan University is 400th institution to go live with Ex Libris Alma |
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Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the 400th customer of the Ex Libris Alma® cloud-based resource management solution, Cardiff Metropolitan University, has gone live. Building on the solution’s unparalleled success, Ex Libris is now focusing on developing new services to address the next level of library needs and practices. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Portico now preserves one billion files |
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ITHAKA, a not-for-profit leader in developing new solutions to advance and preserve knowledge, has announced that its large-scale digital preservation service Portico now preserves one billion files or, in practical terms, more than 20,000 e-journals, 400,000 e-books, and 600 million images that include vast collections of historical newspapers. Portico has also expanded its services and the files it archives by working with libraries with special mandates and obligations to preserve content. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Figshare integrates Altmetric Badges to showcase attention surrounding research outputs |
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Over 2.5 million research outputs deposited on Figshare will now display Altmetric Badges, ushering in a new era of data-level metrics. This new integration means that the attention data for datasets, videos, images, code and other alternative research outputs will be presented within the Figshare platform, and users will be able to access a collated record of all of the comments, shares and discussion relating to an item with a single click. More Search for more news in this Category |
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SAE International publishes new edition of Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles |
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SAE International has announced the fifth edition of Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles, featuring significantly updated and expanded information. The detailed presentation of fundamental aerodynamics principles that influence and improve vehicle design have made Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles the engineer’s “source” for information. This fifth edition features updated and expanded information beyond that which was presented in previous releases. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Northern Territory Library in Australia selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services |
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The Northern Territory Library, a major public research institution in Australia, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as the management system for more than 50 libraries in the region. WMS is a complete, cloud-based library management system that offers all the applications needed to manage a library, including Acquisitions, Circulation, Metadata, Resource Sharing, License Management and a single-search Discovery interface to connect library users to the information they need. More Search for more news in this Category |
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