Information services provider Thomson Reuters has announced that it has acquired Healthcare Data Management, Inc. Effective immediately, the company will become part of the Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, has announced that its 19th International Conference will take place January 19-22, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco. The conference will highlight the innovations and substantial progress healthcare professionals are making in bridging evidence-based clinical content, partnerships and technology for a healthy integrated healthcare system.
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JSTOR recently released a new interface whose feature – the ability for any user to submit a search against all JSTOR content – has reportedly drawn strong reactions from many in the library community. The key concern expressed was that JSTOR users at participating institutions with a subset of JSTOR collections could get search results pointing to content they could not access.
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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest has announced that it is eliminating fees for basic submission to ProQuest Dissertation &Theses Database through its ProQuest/UMI ETD Administrator. According to the company, use of the ETD Administrator - with its simple, paper-free, online process – has grown significantly and now accounts for 60 percent of submissions.
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are co-hosting a forum on ‘Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries,’ immediately following the ARL Membership Meeting. The forum, scheduled for October 14-15, 2010, in Washington DC, will explore the strategic questions that leaders must ask in order to ensure that research libraries are meeting the mission of their institution and the research, teaching, and learning needs of faculty and students.
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JISC Collections, an organisation that manages the acquisition and provision of digital resources for universities and colleges in the UK, will be working with DataSalon to specify and build an online licence comparison site. Launching at the end of 2010, it is projected to provide a user-friendly means for librarians to review individual licences, view two licences side-by-side, or compare terms across many different licences at once.
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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British Volume), published by The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, will be undergoing a title change within the next 5 years. The editorial quality, style and peer-reviewing process of the journal will remain completely unchanged despite the change in title.
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The Journal of the American Medical Association has announced that Editor-in-Chief Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis will be leaving her position as of June 30, 2011. Dr. DeAngelis has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the journal since January 2000. She also oversees the nine Archives specialty medical journal publications.
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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced the appointment of a senior marketing professional to support its Open Access publishing initiatives. Natasha White (née Robshaw) has joined the company as Associate Director, Open Access Marketing.
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UBM TechInsights, a provider of sophisticated information services, consulting, and management software for technology companies, has announced the appointment of Ingo Rutenberg as Director of Sales for US East and Canada. This appointment continues UBM TechInsights investments to better serve the needs of the growing North American market.
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Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface.

This application is uniquely available in two versions: a mobile browser version and a Java application version. The mobile browser version, www.myscoope.com, is designed specifically for all types of Mobile Phones and Devices including iPhone, iPod, iPad, Black Berry and Android phones. The Java version - SCOOPE.JAR - is for all other Java enabled phones which are not browser friendly.

Some of SCOOPE STM Mobile's user-friendly features include:

» Selecting desired news items
» Saving News articles in the local phone memory for later reading
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» Forwarding information via SMS or email
» Navigating to the URL links listed in the news item

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