Institute of Clinical Research journal joins COPE in fight against publication misconduct - June 13, 2008
The Institute of Clinical Research (ICR) has announced that its in-house magazine, CRfocus, has been accepted as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Formed in 1997, COPE is a forum for editors of peer-reviewed journals to discuss issues related to the integrity of… Read More
WK Health launches new tool to streamline assessment of drug performance in managed care - June 13, 2008
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has launched Formulary Facts, an automated, web-based analytics tool designed to help pharmaceutical companies better manage their products in the highly competitive world of managed care. Formulary Facts utilises data from Source Dynamic Claims, the industry's only… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell to publish AAS’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology - June 13, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a publishing partnership with the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS). Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell will publish the society's The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA). The global publisher will also publish the… Read More
Elsevier launches new ‘Expert Radiology’ series for radiologists - June 13, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has launched Expert Radiology, a new series of 2-volume titles designed to fill an important niche among imaging references. The new series has been developed to meet radiologists' need for more in-depth information, while still utilising a concise, highly readable format to… Read More
IMU report cautions against use of citation statistics to gauge research quality - June 13, 2008
The International Mathematical Union (IMU), in cooperation with the International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, has released a report on the use of citations in assessing research quality. The report, titled… Read More
RSC Publishing announces two new journals for 2009 - June 13, 2008
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, UK, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has announced two new journals for 2009 - Integrative Biology and Metallomics. These titles seek to fill the interdisciplinary gaps in the worldwide scientific publishing community. Integrative Biology: Quantitative biosciences from nano… Read More
