BMJ Group launches new apps for healthcare professionals - June 14, 2011
Medical publisher the BMJ Group, UK, has released a series of new apps for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to give healthcare professionals access to quality information. Having recently been released on the iPad, the Best Practice app comes with 20 sample topics that… Read More
Syngress titles offer tips for protection against cyber attacks - June 14, 2011
Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier Science and Technology Books, has announced that Syngress security experts are at the forefront of the battle against cybercrime and offer their solutions in recent, cutting-edge cyber security books. In Cyber Warfare, authors Jason Andress and Steve Winterfeld describe how… Read More
Central Florida Health Alliance selects VeriForm to automate unit inspections - June 14, 2011
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Central Florida Health Alliance has implemented VeriForm for their medication area inspections. VeriForm is a checklist management system that helps hospitals document and report on compliance and patient safety issues throughout a facility.… Read More
EBSCO to transition eBook titles into EBSCOhost - June 14, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that corporate libraries will soon be able to maximise the value of their eBook collection as EBSCO transitions its eBook titles into EBSCOhost. Available in July 2011, eBooks on EBSCOhost will enable corporations worldwide to make… Read More
Penn State University Press partners with CLOCKSS to preserve e-journals and e-books - June 14, 2011
CLOCKSS, a not for profit joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries, has announced a partnership with Penn State University Press. Under the deal, CLOCKSS will preserve the latter's e-journals and e-books in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive… Read More
Support for KBART increasing within knowledge community - June 14, 2011
The UKSG, an international organisation that seeks to connect the knowledge community, and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced that eight more publishers will supply metadata that conforms to the recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2010).… Read More
