From: Press release, Philadelphia, PA, USA - London, UK - January 20, 2006
" THOMSON SCIENTIFIC AND MPS TECHNOLOGIES (www.mpstechnologies.com) AIM TO GIVE LIBRARIANS A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW JOURNALS ARE BEING USED.
A collaboration between Thomson Scientific and MPS Technologies aims to build links between their library products.
MPS has launched ScholarlyStats, a service which consolidates usage reports from multiple platforms to give one view of usage. Thomson Scientific’s forthcoming Journal Use Reports will provide a unique offering for libraries, to combine data on usage, citation and institutional academic research. By integrating these two products the companies aim to enhance the ease of access to this valuable data for information professionals.
Thomson Scientific’s Journal Use Reports will be a new tool to provide libraries with a 360º snapshot of the utilization of all the journals and serials. This tool will harness the power and depth of Thomson Scientific citation information, and combine it with a library’s own usage data to provide a unique insight into the value of journals through usage, citation, and academic research"
Here a short overview of all new updates around the Journal apps we are supporting. Personally I am most excited about the anouncements of " docwise " making big steps to keep up with BrowZine & Read (Integration -"Open in"- with Dropbox, Evernote and more, save and email full text articles), but making a hug jump with unique features, like shareable Folders with docwise users ánd a RSS reader feature (boldly called Google Reader replacement!). Bring it on! BrowZine : just published the Android Version of their App to which the CMB UMCG now has a subscription. To be downloaded from Google Play Store or Amazon App Store the following publishers have been added Project MUSE Cambridge University Press American Marketing Association Academy of Management Royal Society of Chemistry Institute of Physics American Physical Society Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) American Geophysical Union International Society for Optics a...
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