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STM publisher Springer has announced a partnership with IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world, for the publication of their open access journal Comparative Migration Studies and their book series IMISCOE Research Series. Comparative Migration Studies is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal that provides a platform for articles that focus on comparative research in migration, integration, and ethnic studies. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. welcomes BookExpo America (BEA) 2015 guests of honour, the delegation of China, on May 26-29, 2015. As a longstanding partner with China, Wiley will join the three-day New York City conference in highlighting the country’s market growth and influence in the global publishing industry. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has selected applied physicist Robert G.W. Brown as its new Chief Executive Officer. Selected by an AIP Executive Search Committee and unanimously approved by AIP’s Board of Directors, Brown previously served as the chief sensor scientist at the Advanced Technology Center of Rockwell Collins, Inc. and worked concurrently as an adjunct full professor in the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic of the University of California, Irvine, and in UC Irvine’s Department of Computer Science. He will assume the office of AIP CEO on June 1, 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers has reportedly dismissed almost the entire leadership of two medical journals amid a heated argument over editorial independence. 31 editors of Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine were dismissed on May 7 after the editors complained that company staff were interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing. In a lengthy point-by-point rebuttal published on May 7, Frontiers dismissed all of the charges and said it complies with WAME and other international guidelines. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that the global customer support teams for its UpToDate®, Ovid® and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) product lines have each received the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from Omega Management Group Corp. This marks the fourth time each team has been recognized by Omega for their excellence in customer service and support. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Kudos, which helps researchers maximize the reach and impact of their publications, has announced new partners for its publisher and institutional editions. ETH Zürich, Hong Kong Baptist University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Stockholm are the latest participants in Kudos’ pilot for institutions. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Library automation services provider Ex Libris® Group has announce that the Queensland Health (QH) Library Network, in partnership with the State Library of Queensland, has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Together these integrated systems will give all Queensland Health staff access to evidence-based clinical information from their desktops. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has announced that three new titles will join the Nature family of journals in January 2016: Nature Energy, Nature Microbiology and Nature Reviews Materials. Nature Energy and Nature Microbiology are accepting submissions now. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has launched Principles and Practice of Keyhole Brain Surgery, by Charles Teo and Michael Sughrue, at this year’s meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) that was held in Washington, DC, from May 2 – 6. This timely, comprehensive book is a step-by-step guide to the latest techniques used in the keyhole brain surgery, a concept that has become an integral part of the practice of neurosurgery. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Biomedical publisher Karger Publishers has announced the launch of Kidney Diseases, a new journal that aims to provide a platform for Asian and Western research to further and support communication and exchange of knowledge. The journal will be officially launched at the ERA-EDTA Congress and Exhibition in London, May 28-31, 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2016 SPEC survey topics. For 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with librarians in the US and Canada to develop surveys of the ARL membership on strategic topics related to research library policies and practices. Survey authors do not need to work at an ARL member library, but only ARL libraries are surveyed. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Cynthia Crooker has been named science and technology editor for Choice, effective immediately. The premier source of reviews of academic books and digital resources of interest to scholars and students in higher education, Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Library automation services provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Alma resource management solution and the Primo discovery and delivery solution are live at the Natural History Museum in London. Alma allows museum staff to manage all of the Library’s scholarly resources and media types in a unified system, while Primo enables users to search all resource types from a single user-interface, and receive a single, relevance-ranked result list. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry and University of Chicago Press, has launched a new online home for the University of Chicago Press’s portfolio of nearly 70 journals, using technology developed by Atypon. Chicago’s new platform, due for release by the end of 2015, will enhance the rigorous and cutting-edge scholarship for which Chicago’s journals are renowned with advanced search and information discovery capabilities; superior readability and accessibility; and research tools for scholars in all disciplines. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has noted the desire expressed in the ‘Communication on Single Digital Market Strategy for Europe’ issued on 6 May 2015 for legal certainty around the use of copyright-protected materials, including across borders, for text mining. STM suggests that this certainty already exists – through the activities already undertaken by STM member publishers that simplify licensing, permit licensed use, and support text formatting for efficient TDM activities. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Thomson Reuters has released a new research Global 500 Greenhouse Gas Report: The Fossil Fuel Energy Sector, revealing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data from 32 global energy companies, a key subset of the world’s largest publically traded businesses. The report, written in collaboration with global sustainability consultancy BSD Consulting, is the second in a series of GHG reports designed to create transparency and enable sound management of global GHG emissions. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles on April 30, 2015. The policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders’ open access policies. In addition, the policy has been adopted without any evidence that immediate sharing of articles has a negative impact on publisher’s subscriptions. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has partnered with Monash University to publish npj Regenerative Medicine, a new open access research journal that will explore the potential of organisms to restore and regenerate damaged cells, tissues and organs. The study of regenerative medicine has the potential to help scientists and clinicians devise early-intervention treatments for traumatic injury or degenerative diseases, by regrowth or replacement of cells or tissues. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced a major new open access journal, Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics (GHEG), dedicated to publishing and disseminating research that addresses and increases understanding of global and population health issues through the application of population science, genomics and applied technologies. Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics is the Press’s second Open Access journal in the field of global health, joining Global Mental Health which launched in 2014. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Archimed, a software and library solution vendor, has established a partnership with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to enrich the content searchable with Syracuse, its newly-released unified information system portal for libraries. To best serve the diverse needs of their users, university libraries must make their collections easily available at anytime to patrons, this includes providing seamless access to all resources, such as print collections, e-collections, online digital resources, and other valuable third-party content. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched a new open access journal, Environmental Epigenetics. The field of epigenetics has seen tremendous growth in the last few years, and OUP has Editor-in-Chief Michael K. Skinner leading the journal. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new pilot partnership with Publons, a new company working with reviewers, publishers, universities and funding agencies to turn peer review into a measurable research output. Publons, established in 2013, seeks to speed up science by making peer review faster, more efficient and more effective. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio has won 20 awards across 18 categories in the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) annual awards competition. ASHPE recognises member articles and publications for editorial, design, print and online award categories. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine have launched a major initiative to guide decision making about controversial new research involving human gene editing. Human gene-editing technologies include CRISPR-Cas9, may lead to promising new treatments for disease. However, recent experiments to attempt to edit human genes also have raised important questions about the potential risks and ethical concerns of altering the human germ line. Future advances are likely to raise new questions. More Search for more news in this Category |
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A new peer-reviewed e-book series launched this spring by SPIE , the international society for optics and photonics, has its topic-expert editors excited. SPIE, long-time publisher of refereed journals, conference proceedings, handbooks, tutorial texts, and reference books on topics in light-based technologies, had received several proposals from potential authors for projects that did not fit any of its existing models. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Cengage Learning, a global education company, has been awarded multiple honors by the Hermes Creative Awards for its work on digital, website and email platforms. Cengage Learning was honored for its creative and marketing excellence for both its MindTap personal learning experience and also for work by National Geographic Learning (NGL), part of Cengage Learning. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced its first Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge. As the world’s population quickly approaches 9 billion, the strain on the planet’s resources is steadily increasing too. This means that the need to develop alternatives or think of ways to make existing raw materials more sustainable is greater than ever before. MoreSearch for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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Medical knowledge provider BMJ has announced its continued partnership with the Saudi government and healthcare institutions to help improve the quality of healthcare throughout the Kingdom. BMJ experts will be at Saudi Health 2015, Riyadh, May 18-20, to talk about the key healthcare challenges facing the Kingdom, and how BMJ can help through joint research and knowledge sharing. MoreSearch for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that Dr. Brian Levy, its Vice President of Global Clinical Operations for Health Language, will lead a breakout session at the 24th Annual National WEDI (Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange) Conference. The session, ‘Overcoming Challenges to Clinical Information Exchange Through Terminology Management,’ covers the critical role of terminology management to the future of clinical information exchange and will take place on May 21 at 10:05 a.m. in Salt River Rooms 7 and 8 of Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. MoreSearch for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced a partnership with publisher F1000 to develop a practical means to cite peer review activities, based on a standard set of terms and the use of persistent identifiers. Working with the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI), a community working group has been established to define a standard field set and business rules that would work across the many types of peer review used in publishing, funding, university research management, and conference presentations. MoreSearch for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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Publisher Future Science Group (FSG) has launched GenomicsNet, the first online community for those working in the field of genomics and personalised medicine. The new interactive portal is free to join and offers exclusive content from FSG’s leading peer-reviewed journals. GenomicsNet is the latest in a series of niche scientific and medical eCommunities developed and managed by Future Science Group. MoreSearch for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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Mark Allen Group’s MA Healthcare has announced a new sales partner for Nursing and Medical Education Journals hosted on Atypon’s Literatum Platform. MA Healthcare joins a select group of publishers as part of a new offering from EBSCO. Long known as both a subscription agency and a database vendor, EBSCO has pooled the resources from both areas and now offers selected publishers truly expanded worldwide sales and marketing efforts as part of a new program. MoreSearch for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of the sixth edition of Murray & Nadel’s Textbook of Respiratory Medicine, 2-Volume Set. Similar to its previous editions, Murray & Nadel’s Textbook of Respiratory Medicine is a comprehensive reference on all aspects of pulmonary medicine and the most definitive content on basic science, diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of the full spectrum of respiratory diseases. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Publisher Faculty of 1000 (F1000) has announced the launch of F1000Workspace, a research collaboration, reference management and authoring platform for scientists. It is the latest component part of a unique technology eco-system offered by F1000, a community of over 10,000 biomedical experts. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced its new membership team: Josh Brown, Matthew Buys, Nobuko Miyairi (as of July 1), and Lilian Pessoa. Led by Douglas Wright, Director of Membership, the ORCID membership team brings regional expertise in research management, publishing, analytics, research funding, and open access, and fluency in English, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Information skills solutions provider Credo has announced that science help is now offered through Homework Help. Students can now work with state-certified teachers of multiple scientific disciplines, in addition to reading, writing and math. In a recent survey of Homework Help users, students expressed an eagerness to share their positive experiences with their peers. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that NextGen Healthcare will integrate ProVation® Clinic Note into NextGen NowTM, the company’s new cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform. ProVation Clinic Note comprises more than 8,000 evidence-based and pre-coded templates and accompanying metadata that enable content presented to the clinician to change based on the patient’s age, gender, reason for visit, clinical venue and physician specialty. More Search for more news in this Category |
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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and ILS vendor, Data Management PA, have announced a new partnership to provide expanded services to mutual customers. The partnership will enable mutual customers of EBSCO Discovery ServicesTM (EDS) and Data Management PA to access content that is important to them while customising the discovery experience to their needs. More Search for more news in this Category |
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IEEE is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its IEEE Xplore Digital Library, which provides online access to millions of the most cited articles in engineering and technology. Since its launch in May 2000, IEEE Xplore has grown from a collection of 500,000 documents going back to 1988, to a much more robust database of over 3.6 million documents going back as far as 1872. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ProQuest has partnered with the National Library of Scotland to create the very first digitised collection of 19th Century House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, providing online access to previously unseen and valuable historical documents. Launching in late 2015, this unique project will allow those who are not able to access the documents in their physical form to broaden their research into this essential 19th century government documents resource. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation OCLC has announced that Winthrop University, a public, comprehensive college in Rock Hill, South Carolina, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library management system. More than 325 libraries worldwide are currently using WMS to share bibliographic records, publisher and knowledge base data, vendor records, serials patterns and more. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Wendy J. Queen has been appointed director of Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content housed at Johns Hopkins University Press, effective immediately. A 15-year veteran of the organisation, Queen takes the helm after a brief tenure as Interim Director which began in March. More Search for more news in this Category |
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As the second major earthquake struck Nepal less than three weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake, UK-based Evidence Aid has joined the world’s renewed response. It is helping health workers decide what to do, and what to avoid. Evidence Aid, an international initiative set up to provide the best evidence on the effects of interventions before, during and after disasters, is providing much needed knowledge support to health workers in Nepal. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced the release of a new Author Services website in partnership with Editage, an English-language editing and publication support services. With this partnership, Wolters Kluwer will offer editorial services and online educational resources to authors submitting manuscripts on healthcare research to its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Twelve leading national research and education networks (NRENs) representing the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, and including Jisc’s Janet network, have announced the official launch of the second ‘Enlighten Your Research Global (EYR-Global)’ programme. This programme, which helps accelerate international research collaborations by providing selected proposals with improved networking, data transfers, and/or engineering, is now accepting proposals. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Brill has announced the appointment of two new members to the Management Team. Olivier de Vlam will join Brill as Executive Vice-President Finance and Operations, effective August 1, 2015; and Peter Coebergh will become Brill’s Executive Vice-President Sales and Marketing, effective September 1, 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) has announced that the journal Methods and Applications in Fluorescence will now be indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, and content will appear shortly. Coverage will begin with Volume 1 (2013) and the journal will be included in the 2016 Journal Citation Reports with its first Impact Factor. More Search for more news in this Category |
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BitLit, creators of an inventive app that enables publishers to offer ebook bundles to readers, has selected Bowker Global Books In Print® database to power its new ‘Shelfie’ function. Readers use the app to take a photo of their bookshelf (a “Shelfie”). Computer vision algorithms then identify titles on the shelf that are available to the reader at a free or discounted price from publishers participating in BitLit’s bundling service. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of its 2015 Academic Reputation Survey and new report, ‘Exploring Scholarly Trends and Shifts Impacting the Academic Reputation of the World’s Leading Universities.’ This robust analysis of survey results over a five-year period (2010-2014) identifies the key trends and shifts across the global research landscape that influence an institution’s academic standing. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that The Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust is the first healthcare organization in the North of England to introduce UpToDate Anywhere, providing clinicians with mobile access to the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource, UpToDate. The Trust is one of the largest in the North of England, serving more than 465,000 people in Liverpool. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast will follow the publication of each SPEC Kit in 2015. The first webcast in this series will cover the Scholarly Output Assessment Activities survey (SPEC Kit 346), which explores current ARL member library activities that help scholars manage and measure their output and impact. More Search for more news in this Category |
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A partnership between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Universities of Birmingham, Manchester and Oxford, The Sainsbury Laboratory and TGAC with BGI and its open-access journal, GigaScience, has received funding from the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC) to support the sharing of data and analyses in metabolomics. The award of £30,000 from the BBSRC will enable the consortium to host training workshops to support scientists in the UK and China in managing and sharing their metabolomics data and analyses. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Global commodity market intelligence provider ICIS has launched a new product for the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market – LNG Edge. This latest addition to the ICIS product portfolio provides real-time intelligence on LNG cargoes at sea, trade flow volumes, buy/sell opportunities, chartering availability and rates, as well as LNG spot prices and news updates – all in a single platform. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Microform Academic Publishers, a UK-based academic publisher, has chosen LibLynx to manage access to their online collections, including British Online Archives. LibLynx will manage authentication and authorisation of Microform’s individual and institutional subscribers. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCOS) have announced a new quarterly, online-only journal, Spinal Cord Series and Cases. As an official journal of the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCOS), Spinal Cord Series and Cases builds upon the success of its sister journal, Spinal Cord (2013 Impact Factor 1.699). More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier’s Academic Consulting Group will host the third annual Concept-Based Curriculum Symposium from June 4-5, 2015, at Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo. The event will offer a wealth of practical information for nursing educators and institutions that have already transitioned to a concept-based curriculum or are just beginning to explore their options. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced a partnership with the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy to publish open access journal Renal Replacement Therapy. The journal will publish its first articles in late 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that A.T. Still University of the Health Sciences (ATSU) has chosen EDS Discovery HealthTM (EDS). The home of the first osteopathic school in the world and a leading health sciences university with campuses in Arizona and Missouri, ATSU chose EDS to provide one-click access to all the resources in the medical library and provide current and relevant results. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced that Skylar Tibbits will assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, starting with the September issue. Dr. Hod Lipson, who has provided very strong leadership and a solid launch of the journal, will be stepping down from his role as Editor-in-Chief and will remain as a dedicated part of the editorial team as Founding Editor. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Penton Technology Group has named T.C. Doyle, formerly Executive Editor of IT and cloud for Channel Partners magazine, as Senior Content Director, overseeing market-leading Channel brands, MSPmentor, Talkin’ Cloud, The VAR Guy and The WHIR (Web Hosting Industry Review). Another tech veteran, Lisa Schmeiser, was named Content Director, Windows IT Pro. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The redesigned website of UBM’s Tech Resource Library recently went live. UBM Tech aims to make it easier for IT professionals to search and consume the content they need to help support their business technology buying decisions. The Tech Library is home to more than 15,000 white papers, case studies, research reports, webinars, videos and other content assets from technology partners. More Search for more news in this Category |