PRODUCTS Product update
Credo adds video content from Focus Medica
Credo Reference has signed an agreement with Focus Medica, which provides visual medical reference. The deal brings Focus Medica content to the Credo platform. Titles included in the agreement are: Animated Medical and Health Dictionary and Animated Dictionary of
Cardiology. These titles will be offered in the forthcoming Nursing and Allied Health Collection, which will soon join Credo’s eight existing Subject Collections. Videos will compliment text, charts, diagrams and images.
www.credoreference.com
Publishing Technology will build site for GSE Research
Publishing Technology has been chosen to build an academic publishing platform for new, digital-only scholarly publisher, GSE Research. GSE Research’s objective is to bridge the gap between the scholarly research community, policy-makers and the corporate world by building an inclusive and interactive community that shares its views in real time.
The new online platform for research into governance, sustainability and the environment will be built using Publishing Technology’s semantic web-based publishing software, pub2web. The new platform will offer the option of an open peer review model alongside the traditional peer review system.
www.gseresearch.com
HighWire introduces fi ve-star article rating feature on SAGE Open
HighWire Press has developed an article-rating tool designed for open- access publications, which has been implemented for the SAGE Open research journal. The fi ve-star article rating feature gives readers the opportunity to weigh in
From January 2012 Brill will be the publisher of two additional society journals: the Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB) and the Tijdschrift voor
on the quality and impact of a particular article in a transparent open community forum as a supplement to the basic peer review that is practiced by the rapid publication process for open access journals.
www.highwire.stanford.edu
Brill to publish two society journals in biology
Entomologie (TvE). They will become available both in print and on Brill’s online platform.
www.brill.nl
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APA launches database of therapy demonstration videos
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced PsycTHERAPY, a database of therapy
demonstration videos developed to enable viewers to observe how therapists employ different approaches and techniques in
practice. This resource, which includes more than 300 videos at launch, is designed for students, faculty, and seasoned professionals in psychotherapy and counselling.
www.apa.org/pubs/ databases
Repository covers psychological test records and measures
The American Psychological Association (APA) is releasing PsycTESTS. This database is said to provide a simple yet comprehensive solution for libraries and their patrons looking for access to test content. PsycTESTS will be updated monthly and includes over 2,200
indexed test records, with more than 1,500 ready-to- use instruments. It includes full-text psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information for each.
www.apa.org/pubs/data- bases
Free service give mobile access to Taylor & Francis resources
The new Taylor & Francis Online Mobile promises to enable users to access knowledge via iPhone, Android, Blackberry and tablet devices. This new service is free to use, and is said to offer benefi ts to users that include being able to link to their institution’s content via a
quick and easy pairing process and being able to login and share links to content via social networks and email. In addition, the interface is optimised to allow browsing, reading and searching – making the most of smaller screens by using HTML 5.
www.tandfonline.com
Springer web tool enables MARC record
and e-book list downloads Springer has released a new web tool that enables catalogers and librarians to download tailor-made batches of MARC records (Machine- Readable-Cataloging) or e-book title lists. This new
tool, which aims to increase the quality of metadata, is said to be easy to use and allows librarians to download a batch of records to a library’s Springer eBook collections.
www.springer.com/marc
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