Three nursing textbooks published by LWW receive American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year award - January 31, 2013
The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) has awarded its prestigious AJN Book of the Year award to three nursing textbooks published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The LWW publications were honoured in the categories of information technology and informatics, critical… Read More
New titles to be added to British Academy Publications Online - January 31, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press and the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences have announced that the British Academy Publications Online (BAPO) will be updated with 28 new titles on January 31, 2013. British Academy Publications Online is an online… Read More
Sara Lloyd to Chair 2013 LBF Digital Minds Conference - January 31, 2013
The London Book Fair, in association with the Publishers Association, has announced that Sara Lloyd, Director of Digital and Communications at Pan Macmillan, will chair the fifth Digital Minds Conference scheduled for April 14, 2013, at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster. Digital… Read More
WALDO selects Books at JSTOR programme for demand-driven acquisition model - January 31, 2013
JSTOR and WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organisation) have announced an agreement that enables WALDO member libraries to participate in the Books at JSTOR through both outright book purchases as well as a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme. WALDO - the membership organisation that counts… Read More
Accelrys’ electronic laboratory notebooks recognised in Gartner’s enterprise category - January 31, 2013
Accelrys, Inc., a US-based provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, has announced that Gartner, Inc. has rated the company's electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) as 'very high' or 'high' in each scientific and functional domain in a recent report on considerations for selecting an ELN. Accelrys… Read More
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
