Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on July 24, 2015
BioMed Central launches checklist to improve reproducibility of studies published in its journals
Open access publisher BioMed Central has launched a pilot checklist to improve the reproducibility of studies published in its journals. The checklist has been produced according to NIH guidelines for reporting preclinical research. It addresses three areas of reporting: experimental design and statistics, resources, and availability of data and materials.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

University of Salford selects integrated solution from Arkivum and Figshare to meet research data management requirements
Arkivum, the provider of ultra-safe and secure, long-term, large-scale digital data storage and archive services has announced that University of Salford has selected an integrated solution from Arkivum and Figshare in order to meet its research data management requirements. University of Salford’s new solution enables staff, students and researchers to meet funding-body requirements for open access to data while providing a secure, long-term space for a wide range of content.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

New Community Center offers a place online for library staff to share ideas about OCLC services, best practices
The new OCLC Community Center offers a place for library staff to connect online, share best practices, stay up to date on new product releases and contribute ideas to improve OCLC services. Introduced to user groups at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in June, the Community Center is now available to users of WorldCat Discovery Services, WorldShare Management Services (WMS), WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldShare Collection Manager, WorldShare Record Manager and WorldShare License Manager. More OCLC services will be added to the Community Center in the future.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

Blackboard partners with Skillsoft to deliver career-development content to professional learners
Education technology company Blackboard Inc. has announced a partnership with Skillsoft, a global learning content provider, to enable direct delivery of high-quality content to professional learners via Blackboard’s industry-leading teaching and learning platform. The partnership will allow Blackboard to offer learners and instructors access to Skillsoft’s vast library of rich professional training and certification content.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

ACC testifies before Senate HELP Committee on impacts of health information blocking
American College of Cardiology Informatics and Health Information Technology Task Force member Dr. Michael J. Mirro has released a statement regarding his testimony during Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on health information blocking. According to Dr. Mirro, many electronic health record vendors provide the functionality needed by the healthcare community, but also require the purchase of the specific company’s health IT products to make the elements of the EHRs fully interoperable.
More

Search for more news in this Category
Search for more news in this Theme

This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.