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Elsevier and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands reach agreement in principle on open access and subscription
STM publisher Elsevier and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) recently reached an agreement in principle that marks a milestone in the Netherlands’ transition to Open Access scholarly publishing and provides Dutch researchers with continued subscription access to high-quality research. Details of this 3-year agreement, which will start in 2016, will be finalized in the near future.
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John Wiley & Sons and the University of Michigan launch new open access journal – Learning Health Systems
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Learning Health Systems (LHS), a new open access journal published in collaboration with the University of Michigan. The journal represents a new cross-disciplinary science that promotes research, scholarship and dialogue designed to achieve continuous rapid improvement in health and healthcare. LHS will also transform organisational practice at all levels, from regional networks to national and multi-national systems.
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China’s high quality research output grew 37 percent from 2012 to 2014, reveals new analysis of Nature Index data
China’s high quality research output grew 37% from 2012 to 2014, according to new analysis of Nature Index data. The United States saw a 4% drop over this period in the same Nature Index metric (weighted fractional count; WFC). The Nature Index 2015 China supplement, publishing with Nature on December 17, shows China’s total contribution to high-quality science has risen to become the second largest in the world, surpassed only by the United States.
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ProQuest introduces Summon-SIPX Reading List Module to make education better and more affordable
ProQuest has introduced the Summon-SIPX Reading List Module in a move to make education better and more affordable. This new, innovative and cost-saving system integrates the Summon® discovery service and SIPX® course materials solution to encourage use of library holdings to help students and schools save money.
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Medicat selects Wolters Kluwer clinical content and terminology management solutions to enhance functionality in its Patient Health Management offering
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that Medicat has chosen its suite of clinical content and terminology management solutions to enhance functionality in its Patient Health Management offering. Specifically, the comprehensive health solution for colleges and universities will now feature the Workflow Enhancing Search offering from Health Language® and the Integrated Patient Education solution.
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Emerald Group Publishing and ISTEX sign French national license agreement
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has signed a major agreement with the French national licensing programme, ISTEX, to make key academic resources available to the French research community. The agreement will include digitised articles from 316 journals – 142 of which are ranked in Thomson Reuters (ISI), Scopus, CNRS, AERES or FNEGE.
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NLM Value Set Authority Center launches the VSAC Collaboration Tool
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) has launched VSAC Collaboration – a tool to support communication, knowledge management and document management by value set authors and stewards. VSAC Collaboration provides a central site where value set authors can post value sets for collaborative discussion.
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