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PressReader to be exclusive news partner at the Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced a unique partnership with PressReader, the Canada-based digital media platform. As the exclusive News Partner of the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 14 – 18, 2015), PressReader will provide unlimited digital access to more than 4,000 newspapers and magazines from all over the world to all attendees of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Emerald Group Publishing and Cabell’s International to co-host free publishing webinar for early career researchers
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing and Cabell’s International, a resource specializing in connecting researchers, librarians and academics to discipline-related journals, will co-host ‘Publish, Not Perish’ a free webinar for early career researchers on ways to improve their chances of getting published. In this free webinar, Simon Linacre, executive publisher at Emerald, will provide insights into the academic publishing process and what researchers need to know about preparing an article for submission that will increase its odds of publication.
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IMS Health unveils IMS Health Insights, a global thought leadership mobile app
Global information and technology services company IMSHealth has announced the immediate availability of IMS Health Insights — a free application that delivers the company’s extensive thought leadership materials from 19 major countries directly to Apple and Android tablet devices. The new app enables decision makers in life sciences and healthcare to instantly locate and download IMS Health research and white papers that are based on the company’s extensive global information assets, sophisticated analytics and deep healthcare expertise.
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Dr. Charles Yeo named Editor-in-Chief of Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer journal
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced that Dr. Charles Yeo has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer. Dr. Yeo is the Samuel D. Gross Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals.
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Library Investment Index summarizes relative size of ARL University Libraries for 2013–2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the Library Investment Index for 2013–2014, the latest in this annual summary measure of the relative size of the university library members of the Association. Although similar to the ARL Membership Criteria Index in reflecting the investments made in research libraries, the ARL Library Investment Index is less affected by the electronic availability of content and, consequently, the rapidly changing context of library collections.
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NLM and National Endowment for the Humanities reaffirm partnership on initiatives of common interest
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have reaffirmed their partnership, originally established in 2012, following on the visit of NEH Chairman William D. Adams to the NLM. The agencies will continue to develop initiatives that bring together specialists from the humanities, medicine, and information sciences to share expertise and develop new research agendas.
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World’s first collaborative data centre for education and research gains momentum
In the 12 months since the first shared data centre for research and education was launched by Infinity SDC and Jisc, many of the country’s top universities, colleges and research institutions have joined to improve efficiency, decrease costs and advance collaboration on world-leading research. Now, eleven leading UK institutions are utilising the facility for high performance computing and core IT infrastructure; resulting in increased collaboration with significant research projects, improved efficiency across core IT and on-premise data centre facilities being repurposed for teaching.
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