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BMJ Group and OUBS launch accredited online courses in Clinical Leadership BMJ Learning, the medical education division of The BMJ Group, UK, and The Open University Business School’s (OUBS) Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD) have launched postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Leadership for healthcare professionals.
The new courses have been developed following the recommendations of Lord Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review that require all NHS organisations to have formal leadership development plans in place. Research by BMJ Group and the Open University amongst consultants, junior doctors, GPs, advanced nurse practitioners and their equivalents across Europe has confirmed that clinicians, at all levels, increasingly need to demonstrate evidence of managerial and leadership expertise.
There are 155,000 registered doctors in active practice in the UK (BMA December 2009). Research undertaken by BMJ Learning and the Open University revealed a need for understanding the principles behind government policy and the reasoning behind decisions made by senior management within Trusts. Skills relevant to the day-to-day running of practices and clinics, and the need to be able to lead service improvement and assess and implement new services were also key motivators for further training.
Doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals can take flexible, modular and accredited online courses to fulfil their individual requirements for continuous professional development (CPD). Short courses can be taken that will count towards a Post-graduate Certificate in Clinical Leadership and ultimately an MBA or MSc. All of the courses can be undertaken part-time from as little as 25 hours for a single module, and clinicians will be able to build their portfolio over several years. Individuals can sign up to these modules directly or they may be purchased for groups of clinicians as bulk packages through organisations.
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 Publisher - Medical publishing Elsevier announces competition for chemistry research students Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced the launch of the Reaxys PhD Prize for young chemists. The competition is for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the past 12 months.
The prize will be awarded to the candidates that demonstrate excellence in methodology and approach in a peer-reviewed publication. Three prize winners will each receive a cheque for $2,000 and be invited to present their research at the Winners’ Symposium, held at the EuCheMS meeting in Nuremberg, Germany, on August 30, 2010.
All entries will be reviewed by a review board of international chemists, chaired by members of the Reaxys Advisory Board. This includes Dr. P. Kocis - former Global Head Exploratory Chemistry, AstraZeneca; Professor H. Kunz - University of Mainz, Germany; and Professor H. N. C. Wong - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Submissions will be reviewed based upon originality, innovation, importance to the field, applicability, rigor of approach and publication quality.
All submissions must include a PhD Supervisor letter of recommendation, a CV and a representative peer-reviewed piece of published research. Entries should be submitted by February 28, 2010, at http://prize.reaxys.com.
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Publisher - STM Publishing Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews bags three awards at the PROSE Awards STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced that its Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs), the new publications launched in 2009, have picked up three of the most prestigious awards in scholarly publishing at the annual PROSE awards. The American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) named the WIREs as joint winner of this year’s R.R. Hawkins Award, the association’s top prize, established in 1976 to recognise outstanding scholarly works in all disciplines of the arts and sciences.
The WIREs is the first e-product to have won the top prize in the award’s 34-year history.
It joins an illustrious list of titles that have previously received the Hawkins award. The WIREs series also picked up the prize in the eProduct/Best Multidiscipline Platform category and received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works.
The WIREs are unique hybrid publications that emphasise the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research and education. Each title provides authoritative, encyclopaedic coverage of diverse scientific fields with high-quality reviews commissioned from expert contributors from across the globe. These articles are fully citable and eligible for abstracting, indexing and ISI ranking.
Currently available WIREs titles include Climate Change, Cognitive Science, Computational Statistics, Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology and Systems Biology and Medicine. Future titles covering Computational Molecular Science, Energy and Environment, Membrane Transport and Signalling, RNA, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and Developmental Biology are scheduled for launch in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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Publisher - STM Publishing CrossRef exceeds 40 million metadata records for scholarly content Reference linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced that it has surpassed 40 million metadata records for scholarly content. Each of these records includes a CrossRef Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the content to be accessed by a permanent link on the Internet.
Of these 40 million items, 87 percent are from journals. Content from scholarly books and reference works makes up more than 5 percent and another 5 percent is from conference proceedings. CrossRef contains more than 650,000 records from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries as well as the tens of millions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The oldest CrossRef DOIs represent articles from 1665 with issues of the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions.
CrossRef includes metadata from more than 2900 publishers, 20,000 journal titles, and 100,000 book titles, which represent CrossRef’s fastest growing content type. Content comes from 6 continents, including publishers from low-income countries through arrangements with organisations like the Information Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP).
CrossRef currently has 804 voting members, representing 2950 publishers. CrossRef also serves more than 1500 libraries.
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Service provider - Partnership programs / consortiums Bowker acquires BML from Publishing News Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced the acquisition of BML (Book Marketing) from Publishing News Ltd. With this acquisition, Bowker seeks to expand its ability to provide business intelligence to the global publishing market. BML is a provider of market research on the UK book market and is best known for its Books & Consumers survey and BookZone Research Panel. The company will become part of Bowker’s Publishing Services division.
Based in the UK, BML has been providing research and information to the UK book industry for 20 years. Its services are purportedly employed by the UK’s leading publishers and retailers and play a central role in providing the industry with ongoing consumer panel research and customised ad-hoc consultancy. As part of Bowker Publishing Services, it will continue to offer full market research service to its clients, which range from individual publishers and book retailers to syndicates, trade associations, arts organisations and government agencies. It will also maintain its role leading the Book Marketing Society, a premier membership organisation of book marketers.
Bowker’s Publishing Services runs a comparable consumer information service in the US called PubTrack Consumer. Launched in 2007, PubTrack is an ongoing panel of consumer-based research encompassing feedback from more than 40,000 book consumers annually. It also provides advanced cover review services, standard and custom reports as well as special studies — including a recent partnership with the Book Industry Study Group on a landmark e-Book Consumer Study.
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