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 Elsevier’s new Opioid Resource Center brings together latest medical and scientific information to tackle opioid crisis
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has created the Opioid Epidemic Resource Center to help healthcare professionals, medical researchers and the public understand the ongoing opioid epidemic. The Opioid Epidemic Resource Center, freely available on Elsevier Connect, Elsevier’s public news and information website, includes content from Elsevier’s many medical journals, textbooks and other clinical resources.
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 Wolters Kluwer Health unveils quizzing tool that delivers personalised learning for millennials and next generation medical students and residents
Wolters Kluwer Health unveiled a quizzing engine that delivers personalised learning and on-the-go insights to support how, when and where today’s medical students want to learn. The powerful quizzing tool allows students to track progress, view results and build customized quizzes to focus their training on specific subjects, topics or areas of weakness.
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 New international coalition takes crowd-funding style approach to secure the future of open science
In an effort to strengthen and secure the network of non-commercial services that underpin the burgeoning field of Open Science, a newly-formed coalition of international organisations, including SPARC Europe, is spearheading an unconventional appeal. The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), which formed just over a year ago, is now making its first funding appeal to the global academic and research communities; a request for funding support for two widely used services: the Directory of Open Access Journals and SHERPA RoMEO.
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 Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” implements Ex Libris Leganto reading list solution
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (University of Rome Tor Vergata) has now gone live with the company’s LegantoSM course reading list solution. Along with Tor Vergata’s Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution, the Leganto service will provide instructors and students with all the functionality needed for creating, maintaining, and using reading lists.
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 eLife welcomes Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation as new funder-partner
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden, has added its weight to the funder-backed effort to reform science publishing, eLife. Established 100 years ago, the Foundation has awarded 24bn Swedish Krona (nearly £224m) in research and education grants, making it one of the largest private research funders in Europe.
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 UKSG appoints Bev Acreman as Interim Executive Director
UKSG, the key professional interest group for the scholarly communications community, has announced the appointment of Bev Acreman as Interim Executive Director. Bev is well known by the UKSG community, having held senior roles at Taylor & Francis, BioMed Central, Springer Nature and F1000. She has also served on several UKSG committees.
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