Tag Archives: Research Libraries

Elsevier and ANPD launch Mosby’s Medical-Surgical Nursing Orientation course Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, and the Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD) have announced the launch of Mosby’s Medical-Surgical Nursing Orientation course. This eLearning course is designed to help newly licensed nurses successfully transition from academic preparation to autonomous, safe… Read More »

SAGE Publishing to publish Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that it will publish the open access (OA) journal Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, the official journal of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association. Kenneth MC Cheung serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. More Search for more news in this Category Search… Read More »

Elsevier offers free access to ClinicalKey supporting flood relief efforts in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia STM publisher Elsevier is providing free access to its primary online clinical information and reference tool, ClinicalKey, to support healthcare professionals who are responding to the recent flooding and mudslides across Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Earlier this year the region… Read More »

Wiley collaborates with the American Society of Plant Biologists and Society for Experimental Biology to launch new OA journal – Plant Direct Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Plant Direct, a new open access journal published in collaboration with the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and the Society for… Read More »

The Annual Review of Public Health is now freely available to read, reuse, and share Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2017 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health, which is currently online, is published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BYSA) license. This influential content is now freely available… Read More »

Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) launches with early success There is fresh momentum in the scholarly publishing world to open up data on the citations that link research publications. Six organisations have announced the establishment of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). These include OpenCitations, the Wikimedia Foundation, PLOS, eLife, DataCite, and the Centre for… Read More »

Elsevier launches two game-based learning challenges – Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge and Engineering Academic Challenge Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, has announced the launch of two game-based learning challenges, the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge (CSC) and the Engineering Academic Challenge (EAC). The challenges are designed to help students tackle contemporary, real-world problems… Read More »

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Elsevier sign IT professorship deal to support Berlin’s digital agenda Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and information analytics company Elsevier have signed an agreement to launch an information management professorship at the university as part of the Einstein Center Digital Future. This builds on Humboldt’s existing collaboration with Elsevier in the HEADT Centre… Read More »

European Commission mulls over setting up publishing platform for scientists it funds The European Commission, which spends over €10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, and set up a publishing platform for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to… Read More »

Elsevier publishes seven new neuroscience titles STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Neural Data Science: A Primer with MATLAB® and PythonTM by Erik Lee Nylen and Pascal Wallisch. The book offers a beginner’s introduction to the principles of computation and data analysis in neuroscience, using both Python and MATLAB in parallel, giving readers… Read More »