NHGRI launches online Genomics Center for Nursing and physician assistant educators - March 1, 2010
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched an online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics. Dr. Jean Jenkins, NHGRI senior clinical advisor to the director, announced… Read More
La Fondation IPSEN, NPG host meeting on Emergence and Convergence - March 1, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the La Fondation IPSEN recently conducted the seventh meeting in the ‘Emergence and Convergence’ series in San Antonio, Texas. Experts discussed concepts from gene regulation studies in immune cells that have led to insights into the initiation and… Read More
Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery to be official journal of the American Urogynecologic Society - March 1, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, and the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) have announced the first issue of Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery (www.fpmrs.net) as the official journal of AUGS. Dr. Alfred E. Bent… Read More
Inderscience Publishers announces three new titles - March 1, 2010
STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of three new titles. The journals are: International Journal of Aerodynamics, International Journal of Computer-Based Systems and International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology. The latest titles bring the number of journals currently published by… Read More
Portico revamps portal with new design and functionalities - March 1, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced the launch of the new Portico website (www.portico.org) that seeks to help libraries make smart preservation choices. More than 650 libraries and 90 publishers (representing over 2,000 scholarly associations) around the world are… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 1, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Is the Attention Economy of Scholarship Making Science Too Staid?); Gideon Burton (Scholarly Communications in the Long Tail of Knowledge); Ania Wieckowski (Ebooks: Getting Beyond Disruption); and Joseph Esposito (Platform Wars Come to the Book Business). A service… Read More
