JISC-funded research creates toolkit for greener teaching and learning in HE sector - January 31, 2013
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has funded a study by the Open University (OU) - the SusTEACH project – which has found that teaching models in higher education (HE) institutions are still not green enough. Institutions are urged to look beyond greening campus buildings… Read More
Elsevier launches new journal – Anthropocene - January 30, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal, Anthropocene. As a quarterly journal Anthropocene will publish research focusing on the effect of human activity on landscapes, oceans, the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems. Effects are measured over a range of time and space… Read More
BMJ Group set to publish military medical title, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps - January 30, 2013
Medical publisher the BMJ Group, UK, has announced that it will take over production and publication of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (JRAMC) from March 2013. First issue of the journal under the new partnership is due in March. The quarterly title… Read More
JISC funds facilitates open access to 6,500 digitised museum objects - January 30, 2013
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that it has funded a project to make 6,500 newly digitised objects from University College London and the University of Reading's diverse museum collections openly accessible to students, teachers and the public at large. The objects include… Read More
Scripps Health selects ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support - January 30, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Scripps Health has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution. ProVation Order Sets is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution… Read More
RSC and India’s CSIR partner to advance cheminformatics for novel therapies - January 30, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in India to raise awareness of the importance of cheminformatics - or eScience - in accelerating the discovery of novel therapies for neglected diseases such… Read More
