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Xplana partners with Access Innovations


Xplana, a digital content and social learning education platform, has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner for the next release of its Xplana learning platform, which is scheduled to be launched in August 2011. Access Innovations Data Harmony suite includes Thesaurus Master and MAI for automatic indexing of the records. It also includes XIS,


the XML intranet system platform for content creation. The tools will be used to create and maintain Xplana’s metadata. It will also be used to manage


Xplana’s course taxonomies and other metadata resources to allow the updated platform to enhance the utility of its educational content, say the companies. www.xplana.com


Interface enables access to multiple life-science databases


Researchers at Japan’s research institute RIKEN have developed a lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple domains. Through the RIKEN Scientists’ Networking System (SciNetS), the service is said to provide a secure and fl exible interface to millions of data records and their network of semantic relationships.


The interface accesses a ‘virtual laboratory cloud centre’ known as SciNetS, which brings together 192 public database projects that are both internal and external to RIKEN. SciNetS creates common ground for sharing resources by linking these resources in a network of relationships based on standardised semantic web techniques. www.riken.jp


Springer launches open-access computing journal with Korean research society


Springer is launching Human- centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS). The open- access journal will be sponsored by the Korea-based Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA).


Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences is one of the offi cial journals of the FTRA. The journal is said to cover the


multifaceted aspects of human- centric computing technology and information sciences with its convergence strategies. The goal of this interdisciplinary journal is to bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions from this fi eld. www.springer.com


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More publishers participate in UPCC eBook Collections


Project MUSE has announced that 13 more scholarly publishers will participate in the UPCC eBook Collections. To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their e-books in the MUSE/UPCC e-book initiative.


The publishers joining the UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) collections are: The Feminist Press; The Franciscan Institute; NUS Press Ltd; Russell Sage Foundation; Texas Christian University Press; University of Georgia Press; University of Iowa Press; University of


Massachusetts Press; University of North Texas Press; University of Notre Dame Press; University of Ottawa Press; University of Virginia Press; and University Press of Kentucky. The UPCC eBook Collections, which will be searchable alongside journal content, will be available for access on 1 January 2012. They will be offered for purchase, with perpetual access rights and unlimited usage, downloading, and printing. Book content will be in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level. muse.jhu.edu


Bloomsbury and Faber announce Drama Online


Bloomsbury Publishing and Faber and Faber are developing a digital content platform for libraries, educators, students and researchers to be sold via subscription and perpetual access to academic institutions.


Drama Online, which will launch in 2012, is promised to be the ultimate online resource for plays, critical analysis and performance. It will feature the drama lists from Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber to offer a complete digital library of ‘the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays


from the last two and a half thousand years’.


The resource also promises a regularly-expanding portfolio of performance and practitioner texts from theory to backstage. It will include acting guides, images, video and audio material.


Users will be able to search full text and across genres, periods, authors and themes; analyse lines per character; view a rehearsal grid for each play; fi nd monologues; print lines for a character; export extracts with citations in place; as well as save and share materials. www.dramaonlinelibrary. com


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