Springer Healthcare and ASCO announce reprints and sales agreement - November 23, 2011
Springer Healthcare, part of Springer Science+Business Media, has signed a three-year reprints and sales agreement with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), effective January 1, 2012. ASCO is a leading professional organisation representing physicians who care for people with cancer. Springer Healthcare will be… Read More
ProQuest Business Dissertations and Theses now available on the ebrary platform - November 23, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced the availability of a new business & economics subscription collection delivered on the ebrary platform. With this move, the company seeks to offer libraries a new avenue for providing patrons with full-text access… Read More
Three EIFL partner institutions sign the Berlin Declaration - November 23, 2011
Not-for-profit organisation Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) has announced that three more EIFL partner institutions have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities. The institutions are: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), University of Belgrade (Serbia)… Read More
NHS in England to develop Framework Agreement for medical content procurement - November 23, 2011
The NHS in England is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement which identifies the providers of medical and healthcare related published content, products and services. The Framework Agreement will list the providers and agreements from whom the NHS and its partners can purchase with confidence… Read More
Elsevier and Fulbright Commission honour eight early career researchers at the 2011 UK Scopus Young Researcher Award ceremony - November 23, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission recently honoured eight early career researchers in a range of academic disciplines at the 2011 UK Scopus Young Researcher Award ceremony. More than 80 university executives, policy makers, library directors and senior researchers attended the award ceremony… Read More
NLM unveils enhancement of drug naming standard for EHRs - November 23, 2011
The US' National Library of Medicine (NLM) has enhanced the Drug Naming Standard for Electronic Health Records. The RxNorm standard clinical drug vocabulary produced by the NLM is now said to contain more accurate and complete connections between National Drug Codes (NDCs) and standard non-proprietary names… Read More
