US heart associations update cardiac device-based therapy guidelines - May 19, 2008
The American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) have jointly released updated cardiac device-based therapy guidelines. The ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities are viewed as… Read More
Ralf Ueding appointed Managing Director of Birkhäuser - May 19, 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced the appointment of Dr. Ralf Ueding as Managing Director of Springer's Birkhäuser Verlag AG in Basel, Switzerland, effective May 6, 2008. He succeeds Dr. Sven Fund, who left Birkhäuser at the end of March. Ralf Ueding most recently… Read More
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TechWatch report calls for libraries to take coherent approach to metadata - May 16, 2008
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that its recent TechWatch report, by Richard Gartner, on metadata for digital libraries explores how high quality metadata frameworks are critical if libraries are to provide seamless searching and retrieval technologies. Focusing thus on metadata is a… Read More
Back files of Indian Journal of Ophthalmology available for free access - May 16, 2008
The Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO) has announced that back files of the past fifty five years of the journal are now available online. Except for a couple of issues, the entire collection of over 3,500 articles is currently available for free access at Read More
Emerald announces African launch of its new learning network service - May 16, 2008
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced the African launch of its new learning network service - Emerald InTouch. It is for the first time that Emerald will be exhibiting at the 3rd eLearning Africa Conference and Exhibition, which this year is… Read More
