Source: Tenopir, Carol, et al., “Infor­ma­tion with a Twist: Ven­dors keep the party going with Web 2.0″,  Library Jour­nal, May 15, 2008.

 

Else­vier:

1.  2collab — ” to sup­port sci­en­tific col­lab­o­ra­tion and infor­ma­tion filtering”

2. “Scirus Topic Pages — ” to facil­i­tate schol­arly dis­cus­sion on spe­cial­ized topics”

 

Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety:

1. “ACS Nan­o­ta­tion” is an online space in the new ACS jour­nal Nano

2. Offers alert­ing ser­vices via Email or RSS feeds.

 

“Tay­lor & Fran­cis added “NanoScienceWorks.org,” a free com­mu­nity por­tal for nanoscience researchers that enhances the NANOnet­BASE database.”

Thom­son Sci­en­tific:

1. “Journal Cita­tion Forum” is an online dis­cus­sion place for cita­tion research methods.

2. Thomson Sci­en­tific will use the “Knowl­edge Dash­board” from Collexis to build a data min­ing  tool for Web of Knowledge.

 

IEEE is pro­vid­ing free access to high energy physics articles…otherwise they are keep­ing the same sub­scrip­tion model.

 

“JSTOR added links to cited ref­er­ences for those jour­nals that are in the JSTOR col­lec­tion and is adding links to ref­er­ences cited in jour­nals that are out­side the JSTOR collection.”