BMJ provides Ebola resources to support healthcare workers in West Africa Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ is offering a range of free online resources to support healthcare workers tackling the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa – as well as for health professionals outside affected regions who want to keep up to date with the… Read More »
Negotiations on subscription fees and Open Access between Dutch universities and Elsevier fail Negotiations between the Dutch universities and publishing company Elsevier on subscription fees and Open Access have ground to a halt. In line with the policy pursued by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the universities want academic publications to be freely… Read More »
Wolters Kluwer Health announces continued support for relief efforts with Ebola outbreak in Africa Healthcare information solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health is supporting the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) extension of free access to medical resources through November 14, 2014, in response to the Ebola virus disease health crisis. As… Read More »
Introduction to Machine Learning Publisher: MIT Press Copyright Year: 2014 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org//xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6895440 Reality Mining:Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World Publisher: MIT Press Copyright Year: 2014 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org//xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6926931 Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications: From Fundamentals to Advanced Topics Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Copyright Year: 2014 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org//xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6928767 Fundamentals of Silicon Carbide Technology:Growth, Characterization, Devices and Applications… Read More »
Corporate interest is a problem for research into open-access publishing, says NPG/ Palgrave Macmillan survey Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and its sister company, Palgrave Macmillan, recently conducted a survey, which notes that the open-access movement, which aims to provide researchers and the public with free access to academic work, has been growing. But… Read More »
Freedom of Information requests reveal payments to main journal publishers by universities have soared The amount paid by UK universities to subscribe to journals from some large publishers has risen by almost 50 per cent since 2010, new data suggest. The finding is based on freelance requests under the Freedom of Information Act to more… Read More »
University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare selects Elsevier’s InOrder for its order sets solution STM publisher Elsevier has announced that University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare (UKHC), a health system with more than 80 specialised clinics throughout the state, has selected Elsevier’s InOrder for its order sets solution. The cloud-based InOrder enables clinicians, physicians and informaticists to… Read More »
New PCG study shows 23 percent of libraries cover APCs for author submissions to OA journals Marketing and sales consulting firm Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology, has released the results of a new survey, according to which, academic libraries are getting more involved in the cataloguing and funding of Gold Open… Read More »
Free global access to Ebola resources from Oxford University Press extended and updated Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced that it is extending and updating global free access to Ebola resources through the end of 2015 as the crisis has deepened. Following the World Health Organization’s declaration of an international public health emergency in… Read More »
Industry Veteran Punit Dhandhania joins Scope e-Knowledge Center as Strategic Advisor Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced the appointment of Punit Dhandhania as strategic advisor. Punit Dhandhania is a business leader with over 25 years of experience working for global publishers. Pioneering the… Read More »