Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Libraries across Massachusetts will be discontinuing access to certain academic databases and The Boston Globe archive by June 1.

Online scientific databases are increasingly accessed to evaluate academic productivity. 1 However, major discrepancies among databases 2 can affect the recognition and professional advancement of ...

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The skyrocketing cost of academic journal subscription services has made headlines around the world. Late last month, for example, the University of California announced it had cancelled its ...

China’s top research organization is suspending the use of the country’s biggest online academic database due to an expensive subscription fee, domestic media outlet Red Star News reported Wednesday.

Every decade seems to have its database. During the 1990s, the relational database became the principal data environment, its ease of use and tabular arrangement making it a natural for the growing ...

Libraries across Massachusetts will be discontinuing access to certain academic databases and The Boston Globe archive by June 1. The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) made the ...