Elsevier products ScienceDirect and Scopus will be offline on Saturday 28th August from 13h30 to 22h00. Both products will be merged in a new single platform called Sciverse, which should be available immediately after the outage. More information: www.acceleratescience.com
Month: August 2010
GR Atlas accessible à partir du portail
Le GR-Atlas, un atlas interactif de la “Grande Région”, est désormais accessible via le portail du Consortium Luxembourg sous l’intitulé “Base de données” sous la lettre “G”.
L’atlas multidisciplinaire, qui est encore en phase de développement, comprend différentes cartes thématiques (entre autres des disciplines économie, religion, société, milieu naturel, histoire, …), qui couvrent toute la Grande Région et qui vont être progressivement mises à disposition sur l’Internet.
Il est disponible en français et allemand.
Credo Reference exceeds 500 Titles
Credo Reference, an online reference library available through the Consortium Luxembourg Portal, has announced that Credo General Reference Premium now includes 505 titles and will offer 525 by the end of the year.
Over the past two years, Credo General Reference has expanded its coverage by adding in-depth subject encyclopaedias in areas such as Business, Economics, International Relations/Political Science, and more. For more information, see: Credo General Reference Reaches Milestone
KluwerArbitration now includes Practice Tools
KluwerArbitration has announced the addition of Practice Tools into their online offerings.
The Practice Tools consist of:
- a set of 3 easy-to-use question and answer Smart Charts, edited by Clifford Chance LLP;
- the IAI Aribtrator Tool, a search-for-an-arbitrator tool developed with the International Arbitration Institute (IAI).
The Smart Charts include:
- Drafting Arbitration Agreements: a comparative summary of the main components of arbitration agreements across key jurisdictions;
- Sovereign Immunity: a comparative summary of the circumstances in which immunity from enforcement may be claimed by States across key jurisdictions;
- Arbitral Institutions: an at-a-glance comparative summary of the procedural rules of the major international Arbitral Institutions.
The IAI Arbitrator Tool allows users to search for and compare profiles of arbitration specialists from the IAI directory.
Wiley Interscience to become Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library will launch this weekend, 7-8 August 2010.
Therefore, there will be no access to Wiley Interscience as of Sat 7 August 2010 at 10h00. Wiley Online Library will go live on Sun 8 August 2010 at 18h00.
During this transition period anyone attempting to access the sites will see a message explaining the reason for the unavailability and will be directed to wileyonlinelibrary.com/info for more details.