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Elsevier launches first virtualized medical institution on PracticeUpdate
STM publisher Elsevier recently announced the launch of the first virtual Center of Excellence focused on a single disease, renal cell carcinoma. The knowledge-sharing site for physicians was created by PracticeUpdate, Elsevier’s physician portal, in partnership with The West Cancer Center at the University of Tennessee.
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Springer and Baden-Wuerttemberg Consortium sign agreement for access to 1,917 Springer e- journals
Starting January 2015, researchers, faculty members and students affiliated with colleges and universities in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg will have convenient access to 1,917 electronic journals published by Springer. The license will continue through the end of 2017. Furthermore, the state has purchased permanent archival rights to these journals back to 2003 for inclusion in the Baden-Wuerttemberg Archive.
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Kudos and Thomson Reuters partner to add citation data to author dashboards
Kudos, which helps researchers and institutions maximise the impact and visibility of their publications, has announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters through which Kudos author dashboards will be augmented with citation data from Web of Science, the premier web-based platform for scientific search and discovery and the authority in science, social science, and arts and humanities indices. Kudos provides a platform through which academics can ensure their work is more widely visible, and for measuring the effect of different activities that support discovery.
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Nature Publishing Group joins OASPA
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a trade association which represents the interests of open access publishers in all academic disciplines. NPG publishes 73 journals with an open access option, and 38 percent of the research articles published by NPG last year were immediately open access under Creative Commons licenses.
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Webinar on Libraries, Researchers and ORCID scheduled for October 30
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced a forthcoming webinar on Libraries, Researchers and ORCID. This webinar will explore the ways that libraries can support researchers in creating and using their ORCID iDs. The webinar will be held on October 30th, at 0800 (New York), 1300 (London, Lisbon), 1400 (Paris, Warsaw), 1900 (Beijing), 2000 (Tokyo).
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Unbound Medicine releases Ebola Guidelines, a new resource available as part of the free Relief Central mobile app
Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced the release of Ebola Guidelines, a new resource available as part of the free Relief Central mobile app. Ebola Guidelines consolidates and organises the latest diagnosis, management, and prevention recommendations from leading sources such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic (ABX) Guide.
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Frontiers unveils new OA journal – Frontiers in ICT
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of Frontiers in ICT, an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal that brings all specialisms across information and communications technologies together on a single platform. From big data to digital health and quantum computing to digital education, each relevant specialty will be led by dedicated team of international researchers.
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Cambridge University Press and the BSHS announce publishing partnership
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) have announced their partnership to launch a new, peer-reviewed, open access, thematic journal, for the history of science. A call for proposals for the first volume of BJHS Themes has been released, seeking thematic collections of papers that animate, provoke and inspire the scholarly community.
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