Springer Healthcare, part of Springer Science+Business Media, has signed a three-year reprints and sales agreement with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), effective January 1, 2012. ASCO is a leading professional organisation representing physicians who care for people with cancer.
Springer Healthcare will be the exclusive supplier of reprints from articles published in ASCO's Journal of Clinical Oncology and Journal of Oncology Practice for North and South America, most of Europe, India, and other territories. In addition, Springer Healthcare will be the exclusive representative for licensing of other ASCO educational resources including the ASCO Annual Meeting abstracts and Educational Book, Virtual Meeting content, symposia proceedings, patient materials, and ASCO University—the Society's online learning environment.
Springer Healthcare, part of Springer Science+Business Media, has undergone significant growth in the past decade and has expanded rapidly, with global reach into all international markets and more than 150 employees worldwide. The company seeks to meet the communication and publishing needs of the international healthcare communities, with a growing portfolio of products, including MedWire News, strategic consultancy, event management, eBusiness products and services, as well as print and digital medical publishing.
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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced the availability of a new business & economics subscription collection delivered on the ebrary platform. With this move, the company seeks to offer libraries a new avenue for providing patrons with full-text access to scholarly dissertations and theses in a key discipline.
With a growing selection of over 2,400 titles in areas such as business administration, emerging markets, economics, public finance, sovereign debt, and marketing, the new Business Dissertations and Theses Collection enables scholars to mine emerging research from world-renowned business schools for new ideas and comparative study.
Acquired by ProQuest in January 2011, ebrary brings new functionality to ProQuest's robust collection of peer-reviewed dissertations and theses including the ability to highlight, take notes, share bookshelves, and use InfoTools for contextual linking to other online resources.
ProQuest's new Business Dissertations and Theses Collection can be enhanced with thousands of relevant e-books from ebrary, available under multiple models including subscription, perpetual archive, patron driven acquisition, and short-term loan. The new package will also soon be integrated with the new ProQuest Platform alongside other ebrary products such as Academic Complete, providing a comprehensive way to discover and utilise important information from authoritative sources.
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Not-for-profit organisation Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) has announced that three more EIFL partner institutions have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities. The institutions are: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), University of Belgrade (Serbia) and Makerere University (Uganda). These institutions join over 340 leading international research, scientific, and cultural institutions from around the world that have signed the Declaration.
The Declaration builds on the significant progress of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, calling for open access to knowledge in the humanities as well as in the sciences. It also moves beyond the scope of primary literature, indicating, open access contributions include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material.
By signing the declaration, the institutions will, in future, encourage researchers to make their materials available in open access (through self-archiving in open access repositories or publishing in open access journals). They will also encourage the holders of cultural heritage to support open access by providing their resources on the internet. The signatories commit: to develop means and ways to evaluate open access contributions to maintain the standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice; to advocate that open access publications be recognized in promotion and tenure evaluation; to advocate the intrinsic merit of contributions to an open access infrastructure by software tool development, content provision, metadata creation, or the publication of individual articles; and to pursue solutions that advance the internet 'as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge.'
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The NHS in England is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement which identifies the providers of medical and healthcare related published content, products and services.
The Framework Agreement will list the providers and agreements from whom the NHS and its partners can purchase with confidence and without the need for full competitive tendering. Potential providers are invited to bid for one or more content categories to include; print and electronic journals and books; databases and aggregated evidence summaries resources.
The NHS in England is responsible for commissioning, planning, delivering, managing and evaluating healthcare; and for promoting public health. Its core functions include patient care, education and research. A complex organisation comprising many separate bodies, it seeks to work in partnership with other organisations to fulfil its objectives.
To support these objectives, the organisations that make up the NHS, and their partners, invest a significant amount in information resources. It is seen to be vital to ensure that this investment of taxpayers' funds delivers value for money, not only for individual organisations, but for the NHS as a whole. The aims is to ensure that the diverse, dispersed and specialist staff groups engaged in health and social care have access to the information resources they need, at the point they need them.
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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission recently honoured eight early career researchers in a range of academic disciplines at the 2011 UK Scopus Young Researcher Award ceremony. More than 80 university executives, policy makers, library directors and senior researchers attended the award ceremony at the Royal Society in London, recognising the outstanding achievements of the best UK early career researchers.
The UK Scopus Young Researcher Award is one of the initiatives the US-UK Fulbright Commission and Elsevier have developed together to foster UK research talent. The award nominees are all researchers who have published for the first time in 2008 or more recently and have an affiliation to an institution in the UK. They were assessed by a jury of 40 consisting of former Fulbright Scholars, academic journal editors and other discipline-specific experts. Their assessment was based on publication and citation information provided by SciVerse Scopus, Elsevier's abstract and citation database.
The jury also selected three institutions to be presented with the 2011 Scopus Fostering Young Researchers Institutional Award. The Universities of Manchester, Oxford and Southampton will receive this award for having trained 11 of the shortlisted candidates.
Elsevier has hosted Scopus Young Researcher Awards around the world with various partner organisations since 1995, in a concerted effort to support the growth and development of research talent globally.
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The US' National Library of Medicine (NLM) has enhanced the Drug Naming Standard for Electronic Health Records. The RxNorm standard clinical drug vocabulary produced by the NLM is now said to contain more accurate and complete connections between National Drug Codes (NDCs) and standard non-proprietary names of medications recommended for use in electronic health records (EHRs). NLM, a component of the National Institutes of Health, claims to be the world's largest medical library.
The RxNorm includes, for the first time, the complete set of NDCs from Thomson Reuters' Red Book, a drug database widely used in the healthcare industry. NDCs are product identifiers assigned by manufacturers and packagers of drugs in the US.
Accurate and complete connections between NDC product codes and RxNorm standard names and identifiers are seen to have many potential uses within an individual patient's EHR. These include the use of an NDC on a medicine bottle to speed standard data entry or to trigger an alert written in the RxNorm standard that could prevent a medication error.
The Red Book is expected to provide RxNorm with better linkages between branded drugs and their NDCs, information about whether or not drugs are still on the market, and Drug Enforcement Agency Class for controlled drugs. This additional information is instrumental in the production of the Current Prescribable Subset of RxNorm.
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NetLearning, a US-based provider of online courses and e-learning software for healthcare workers and hospital administrators, has announced an agreement with the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA). Under the deal, the CHCA will offer its Essentials of Pediatric Critical Care Orientation (EPCCO) course to customers in the paediatric field via NetLearning's learning management system (LMS).
CHCA's EPCCO contains over 30 course topics, bundled by body systems into eight modules, each including case scenarios and practice activities, among other features. Each module focuses on the paediatric-specific knowledge and competencies necessary for clinicians to effectively and confidently care for critically ill children. Combined with application-focused learning activities, the EPCCO programme provides the adaptability desired by educators as well as the flexibility for learners to set their own pace while learning foundational content.
The NetLearning LMS claims to be one of the most advanced systems available in the healthcare industry. Built in .NET/Microsoft SQL Server architecture, it was designed and refined by healthcare professionals in the field to ensure maximum efficiency when managing, tracking and reporting on staff development, training and compliance. Unlike other systems, NetLearning's LMS platform offers integration with HR systems, sending information on grades and course completion dates to automate payroll, scheduling, merit raises and other performance initiatives as determined by the administrator.
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Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, has announced the appointment of Peter Blok as EVP of Global Professional Services and member of the executive team.
In his new position, Blok will be responsible for all implementation projects of Publishing Technology's flagship enterprise software platform, advance, across its worldwide operations. Prior to joining Publishing Technology, he was Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Celgene Corporation and Vice President of Global Professional Services at Invensys Corporation.
Blok has over 30 years experience in global commercial operations and technology, including many major multi-site ERP system deployments, the largest of which spanned more than 50 international sites. His expertise includes managing portfolios of systems and management engagements that include ERP, document management, regulatory compliance and business process optimisation. His international experience includes postings in Japan, China, Switzerland, France, the UK, and North America.
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Springer Healthcare and ASCO announce reprints and sales agreement
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