NFAIS announces ‘Call for Presentations’ for 2016-2017 Lunch & Learn education series The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced a ‘Call for Presentations’ for its 2016-2017 Lunch & Learn with NFAIS virtual education series. The submissions deadline for the 2016-2017 series cycle… Read More »
Elsevier acquires laboratory data management tool Hivebench STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Hivebench, the flagship product of researcher application developer Shazino, based in Lyon, France. This tool will be integrated into Elsevier’s existing Research Data Management portfolio, resulting in the further enhancement of the researcher experience. Hivebench is a digital laboratory notebook… Read More »
DirectCourse launches Person-Centered Counseling Training Program pilot for the No Wrong Door System through the Administration for Community Living STM publisher Elsevier in collaboration with the Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC/CL) at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Community Integration, has announced that its new Person-Centered Counseling Training courses are available to… Read More »
Elsevier to publish the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine STM publisher Elsevier has been chosen as the new publisher of the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (J-AIM), the official publication of the World Ayurveda Foundation and Trans-Disciplinary University, Bangalore, India. Elsevier will publish J-AIM from volume 7 onwards. J-AIM is an international open… Read More »
Thomson Reuters’ new evidence-based solution provides a curated insight into patient genomics The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Precision Medicine Intelligence, a new evidence-based solution dedicated to helping scientists and physicians understand and keep pace with the rapid growth of scientific and medical literature. The announcement was… Read More »
Springer’s new Journal of Cognitive Enhancement to explore the theory and practice of improving human ‘brainpower’ Springer, part of Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has announced the launch of the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement: Towards the integration of theory and practice, a new interdisciplinary psychology publication. The journal will contribute to… Read More »
Elsevier, PaperHive collaboration to enable users to access, share and annotate content from ScienceDirect database STM publisher Elsevier will collaborate with Berlin-based scientific collaboration platform PaperHive to enable researchers to easily discover, share and annotate the over 12 million articles on ScienceDirect, the world’s largest database of scientific, technical and medical full-text content. PaperHive will… Read More »
2016 SSP Early Career Professional Survey results to be detailed at Annual Meeting The SSP Early Career Task Force will release the results of their February survey aimed at early career professionals in the scholarly communication industry at the 2016 Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, being held June 1-3 in Vancouver, BC. The session,… Read More »
CAS and BioOhio team up to organise Big Data: Data-Driven Insights in Health Care CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, and BioOhio, Ohio’s bioscience membership organisation, are organising the Harnessing Big Data: Data-Driven Insights in Health Care. This highly anticipated event will share real world examples and case studies of how Big Data… Read More »
Altmetric launch Badges for Books – new chapter-level insights for thousands of scholarly books Launching on Routledge Handbooks Online, Altmetric Badges for Books enables publishers to provide an at-a-glance summary of the online attention a published book and its individual chapters have received. Now available on content that is identified by ISBN (International Standard Book… Read More »