Elsevier Australia releases updated edition of mental health nursing textbook - October 15, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier Australia has announced the publication of a revised third edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, a textbook by Elder, Evans and Nizette. As the Australian government attempts to address shortages in the mental health workforce, specifically mental health nursing, and expand the… Read More
RSC’s Dr Antony Williams honoured for his work on the ChemSpider platform - October 15, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that Dr Antony Williams, VP for Strategic Development and Head of the Cheminformatics group, for the RSC has been honoured by Microsoft Research for his outstanding contribution to the field of data-intensive computing, especially for his work on… Read More
Metapress unveils the Essential platform to support small publishers - October 15, 2012
MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced the Metapress Essential platform to support smaller publishers. This new platform allows small publishers to receive the same features that enable large publishers to launch an online presence and manage content. The Essential platform is part… Read More
LCA welcomes court decision in favour of HathiTrust library using digitised works - October 15, 2012
The US' Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) has welcomed Judge Harold Baer's decision saying that the HathiTrust Digital Library's (HDL) use of digitised works is a fair use permitted under the Copyright Act. Baer's ruling not only allows HathiTrust to continue serving scholars and the print disabled,… Read More
SAGE Open Engineering opens for submissions - October 15, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that its journal SAGE Open Engineering is now open for submissions. Building on SAGE's expanding portfolio in engineering, SAGE Open Engineering is a new Open Access journal aimed specifically at engineers. Overseen by a world leading Advisory Board Chaired by… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 15, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (The Google/AAP Settlement: Less Than Meets the Eye?); David Phipps (Knowledge mobilisation is a social process: Social media can support individuals and organisations in research dissemination); Joseph Esposito (Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive?); Joe Wikert (Gamechangers: Two… Read More
