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Podcast transcription services from Scope e-Knowledge Center - 04 Jul 2007
Scope e-Knowledge Center, India, a leading provider of database and research services and publisher of Knowledgespeak, has announced that it has been executing podcast transcription services on behalf of several scientific journals, including 3 widely read journals from the US and Europe. Scope' end-to-end service ensures high quality transcripts of podcasts in any STM discipline, at competitive rates. Benefits include highly experienced and skilled transcriptionists for the basic transcription; a verbatim conversion of audio into text, through a process of listen and type; elaborate quality control processes with multiple review layers in order to check the accuracy of content, names and other proper nouns; and transcription clean-up, to remove any redundant expressions and words and correcting minor grammatical errors to make the transcripts more readable. In case of interviews by technical experts, the company has a web research team which does a thorough background search on the topic discussed and on the author(s) and picks out the right technical terminologies as spoken by the interviewer. In addition, Scope ensures a turnaround time of 24 hours. This enables publishers to upload the transcription of the podcast(s) into their websites in time. Led by an experienced management team, Scope offers a range of remote knowledge services. This includes business research, scientific and technical databases, abstraction and indexing, patent drafting, patent analytics and business and competitive intelligence. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Brussels, London, Cologne, and Chennai, the company's team of about 500 includes qualified engineers, medical doctors, pharmacists, radiologists, MBA's and other professionals. Scope's clientele include leading print and online publishing companies, patent offices, corporate organisations, legal firms and a host of information intermediaries in the US, UK and Europe.
ETS to buy Thomson Corporation's Prometric - 04 Jul 2007
Information solutions provider Thomson Corporation, US, has announced that it has announced a definitive agreement with leading educational measurement and research organisation, ETS. Under the deal, the latter will purchase Thomson Prometric for $435 million. The purchase price includes $310 million in cash plus $125 million to be paid through a promissory note due in 2014. The transaction, expected to close in the third quarter of 2007, is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. The sale is part of Thomson's previously announced strategy to sell the assets of its Learning business via three independent sales processes to enable Thomson to pursue opportunities better aligned with its growth strategy and business model. Thomson Prometric is the recognized global leader in technology-enabled assessment services, providing paper-and-pencil, Internet and computer-based testing solutions. It offers a fully integrated testing system that includes test development, test delivery and data management capabilities. On behalf of more than 400 clients in the academic, professional, government, corporate and information technology markets, Thomson Prometric develops and/or delivers assessments through a global network of testing centers in 132 countries as well as direct to candidates via the Internet. Click here to read the original press release.
Nature Publishing Group launches new company - NPG Iberoamerica - 04 Jul 2007
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of a new company, NPG Iberoamerica. The company will be headed by Lucia Ferreiros, an experienced publisher in health sciences who formerly led Elsevier Health Sciences in Spain and Latin America. Based in Madrid, Spain, NPG Iberoamerica's seeks to develop medical communications business for Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC) in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking markets of Europe and Latin America as well as other non-English-speaking markets in Europe. MMC was established in June 2006 to develop medical communications and health sciences business for Macmillan, owner of NPG, with exclusive access to the high quality scientific and medical content of NPG. It now has regional offices in London, Philadelphia, Tokyo and Madrid headed by three experienced leaders in medical communications and health sciences publishing. In July last year, Susumu Onishi, former president of Elsevier's health sciences company in Japan Excerpta Medica spearheaded the launch of MMC in Asia out of Tokyo under the direction of Antoine Bocquet, Associate Director of NPG in the Asia-Pacific region. This was followed by the set up of MMC operations in Philadelphia and London headed by John Elduff, former general manager of the pharmaceutical sales division and senior vice president of sales at Elsevier. Click here to read the original press release.
SAGE partners with the Infection Control Nurses Association to publish BJIC - 04 Jul 2007
Academic and professional publisher SAGE Publications has announced a partnership with the Infection Control Nurses Association. Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the latter's British Journal of Infection Control (BJIC), starting September 2007. A bi-monthly publication, BJIC offers a significant contribution to the critical issues around infection prevention and control, infectious diseases and public health that frequently dominate political and public discussion. In recent months the journal has featured topics such as extremely-drug resistant tuberculosis, hand hygiene developments, and the MMR vaccine debate. It has a rapidly developing, multi-professional author and readership base, which includes infection prevention and control professionals, public health and health protection specialists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, and primary care professionals. SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. It publishes over 460 journals, over 150 of which are in the science, technical and medical fields. This includes publications such as The American Journal of Sports Medicine, the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and the Journal of Composite Materials. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore.
Blackwell Book Services and Ebooks Corporation announce enhanced strategic partnership - 04 Jul 2007
Library services provider Blackwell Book Services, UK, and digital books provider Ebooks Corporation Ltd., Australia, recently announced that they have extended the scope of their collaboration into the UK and Europe. Under this expanded partnership, Blackwell Book Services will distribute and market Ebook Corporations' ebook library product, EBL, to the UK and European library market with direct representation through the Blackwell Book Services sales team. Specifically designed to meet the needs of academic and research-based libraries, EBL has a well established user-base in North America, Asia- Pacific, the UK and Europe. The ebook lending platform includes over 53,000 titles from 220 leading academic publishers, across all disciplines - science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences. EBL's unique Non-linear lending and streamlined demand-driven acquisition models, including pay-per-view access, have become increasingly popular in academic and corporate libraries. EBL ebook titles are fully integrated within Blackwell Collection Manager(TM), the Blackwell proprietary web-based acquisition and collection development tool. Collection Manager(TM), a free resource for libraries provides simplified acquisition of ebooks within existing workflows. Libraries can browse and purchase across print and ebook material with full consolidation of invoicing, bibliographic and collection development services.
IOP extends free trial access to online scientific journal platform - 04 Jul 2007
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced that the free trial access to IOPscience, an online journal platform, has been extended until July 16, 2007. IOPscience, currently in the beta stage, is claimed to offer unique and useful features and functionality, aimed at allowing easier access to its STM content. During the free trial, all full text content can be downloaded. Users can take this opportunity to try IOPscience at http://iopscience.iop.org and send their feedback, comments or questions to iopscience@iop.org. The recent updates include personalised 'Latest Articles', which helps to see the latest articles published by IOP in a particular subject area. RSS feeds have been made accessible to all external news readers such as Bloglines, thereby allowing researchers to be updated with all new research added to IOPscience. In addition, the new 'Related Articles' tab, available from every abstract page shows articles that are related to the one the user is viewing, allowing him/her to discover more content. Click here to read the original press release.
Four Holt education products bag AEP awards - 04 Jul 2007
Secondary education publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston, US, part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, has announced that four of its products received special recognition by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). The products, Holt Science and Technology Lab Generator CD-ROM, Holt Exploring Food and Fitness Choices Interactive CD-ROM, Holt Multicultural Readers, and Holt Lesson Tutorial Videos, won the respective categories at the AEP 2007 Distinguished Achievement Awards. The winners came from three disciplines: science/health, language arts and mathematics. For four decades, the AEP Distinguished Achievement Awards programme has recognised diverse print, electronic and instructional resources exhibiting superior content and educational value. Judging panels are drawn from a national pool of writing, publishing and design experts in print and technology; education editors; educators; and curriculum experts. Since 2003, 13 Holt products have been selected as finalists and now seven Holt products have won their category. Previous winners from Holt include Holt Live Ink Reading Help for Holt Online Learning, Holt ¡Exprésate! DVD Tutor and Holt Calendar Planner for the Holt One Stop Planner. Click here to read the original press release.
Quadrant HealthCom names Dr. Randy Danielsen PA Editor-in-Chief of Clinician Reviews - 04 Jul 2007
Healthcare publisher Quadrant HealthCom Inc., US, has announced the appointment of Dr Randy D. Danielsen, as the Physician Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Clinician Reviews, a peer-reviewed journal for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Randy brings a wealth of medical, educational, and leadership expertise to Clinician Reviews, where he has served on the publication's editorial board since 1994. A physician assistant since 1974, he has practiced in allergy, asthma, and immunology, emergency and urgent care medicine, occupational medicine, cardiology, and family medicine. Dr. Randy is also Chair of the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants. Founded in 1996, Quadrant HealthCom Inc. (QHI) is a leading publisher of clinical and non-clinical information for healthcare professionals. It publishes twelve medical journals reaching more than half a million prescribers every month in the primary care, neurology, psychiatry, urgent care, emergency medicine, women's health, pulmonary, dermatology, orthopedics, nurse practitioner/physician assistant and federal markets. The company also develops specialised communications projects, including interactive multimedia, meetings development and management services, custom-sponsored programmes, special journal editions, and continuing medical education programmes.
Dear Subscribers - 04 Jul 2007
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