ARL applauds US Judiciary Committee action to reform privacy laws - April 26, 2013
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has, on April 25, reportedly taken another crucial step toward fixing outdated privacy laws by endorsing a bill proposed by Chairman Patrick Leahy. The bill includes vital reforms to give appropriate privacy protection to e-mail and cloud storage. The committee passed a similar bill… Read More
Annual OCLC Research Library Partnership Roundtable scheduled for April 27 - April 26, 2013
Library information provider OCLC Research has announced that its annual Library Partnership Roundtable will be held on April 27 at ARLIS/NA in Pasadena, CA. This meeting will provide an opportunity for staff from OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions to hear about and influence OCLC Research plans… Read More
Nature measures to improve transparency in life sciences research publication - April 25, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has introduced new measures to improve the consistency and quality of reporting in the life sciences research published in the journals Nature and Nature Research. An editorial in Nature highlights the problems that result from publishers exerting insufficient scrutiny… Read More
Reed Elsevier announces appointment of Senior Independent Director and Remuneration Committee Chairman - April 25, 2013
Professional information solutions provider Reed Elsevier has announced changes to its Senior Independent Director and Remuneration Committee Chairman. Lisa Hook has been appointed Senior Independent Director with immediate effect. Hook has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Reed Elsevier NV and a Non-Executive… Read More
Taylor & Francis survey notes OA dichotomy among authors - April 25, 2013
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has released the fifth in a series of press releases on the themes and findings of the Open Access Survey. In this survey, Taylor & Francis investigated authors' attitudes and values relating to the communication of research when publishing in open… Read More
ICD-10 mapping files from Medi-Span continue to aid customers meet HHS compliance requirements for diagnosis coding by deadline - April 25, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Medi-Span customers still have time to add previously released files to map Medi-Span proprietary vocabularies to ICD-10, helping to meet the Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) compliance requirements by the October 2014 deadline.… Read More
