Wiley-VCH has launched physica status solidi RRL – Rapid Research Letters, the latest member of the journals cluster physica status solidi.

Knovel Corporation has announced a new content partnership with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). This partnership is expected to expand Knovel’s offering for the aerospace industry.

Inderscience is launching a bi-monthly journal to address empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of engineering materials and their processing technologies and surface engineering.

Wiley-VCH is launching Macromolecular Reaction Engineering (MRE), the youngest member of its Macromolecular Journals family, which will focus on polymer reaction engineering for the development of polymeric materials.

Access Innovations (AI), which provides the Data Harmony suite of taxonomy software tools, is working with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to improve the institute’s online research services.

Dialog has added the Engineering Index Backfile to the Dialog platform. This backfile from Engineering Information is said to add more than 1.7 million records dating back to 1884.

Maney Publishing and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining are launching Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces, to look at reactions at tribological interfaces.

HFSP Publishing is launching the HFSP Journal, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences to foster communication between scientists publishing innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences.

Emerald Group Publishing is launching a new web portal for engineers and is offering free access to the full content on the Emerald Engineering web portal until September 2006.

Springer has begun publishing Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC), the official journal of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.