Wolters Kluwer’s Clinical Drug Information solutions used in 25 out of the 27 top-scoring hospitals in the US The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that its Clinical Drug Information solutions are used in 25 out of the 27 top-scoring… Read More »
Frankfurt Book Fair to host THE MARKETS – Global Publishing Summit 2015 THE MARKETS – Global Publishing Summit 2015, the new conference to kick off the Frankfurt Book Fair (14-18 October 2015) will set the stage for the world’s largest industry event. The one-day conference will focus on seven international book markets, which will be… Read More »
https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/books/moneyball/whitepaper or http://communications.elsevier.com/res/elsevier_uk/Moneyball%20White%20Paper.pdf Playing “Moneyball” in Librarianship:The Winning Strategy of Gap Analysis By Tommy Doyle Senior Vice President, Elsevier Data, driving high-quality decisions, can be a powerful vehicle for change. By empowering librarians with fact-based analytics, their libraries can become more prominent and valuable. Such “gap analysis” provides librarians greater visibility into usage behavior, as… Read More »
American Mathematical Society’s Mathematical Reviews and National Transportation Library join NFAIS The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information community, has announced that the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematical Reviews and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Transportation Library have joined NFAIS as new members. The AMS,… Read More »
Elsevier launches My Knovel ToGo tablet app for Android and iOS STM publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of the My Knovel ToGo tablet application for Android and iOS. My Knovel ToGo is a mobile reader that provides both on- and offline access to Knovel content that users select from their subscription entitlements. This supports… Read More »
Elsevier’s PharmaPendium boosts UCL’s research in drug repurposing and personalised medicine STM publisher Elsevier has announced that UCL has subscribed to PharmaPendium, part of Elsevier’s R&D Solutions for Pharma and Life Sciences. PharmaPendium is a decision support solution designed to help improve drug development decisions by enabling access to the most comprehensive resource of fully… Read More »
The Following Lectures Were Published in July and are included in Collection Six Click Models for Web Search Aleksandr Chuklin, University of Amsterdam and Google Switzerland Ilya Markov, University of Amsterdam Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Entity Resolution in the Web of Data Vassilis Christophides, University… Read More »
ALPSP conference to discuss how to use text mining to extract sentiment, insights and opinions from Twitter The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers has announced that Guy Singh of Linguamatics will be discussing how text mining can be applied to Twitter, a medium which uses a combination of both standard language, colloquialisms, slang… Read More »
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… Read More »
Springer retracts 64 articles from 10 Springer subscription journals STM publisher Springer has confirmed that 64 articles are being retracted from 10 Springer subscription journals, after editorial checks spotted fake email addresses, and subsequent internal investigations uncovered fabricated peer review reports. After a thorough investigation it was discovered that the peer review process on these… Read More »