Swets and Decision Support in Medicine partner to launch a point of care tool featuring 28 specialty programs - October 21, 2013
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, in partnership with Decision Support in Medicine, LLC., has launched Decision Support in Medicine (DSM) – a point of care tool featuring 28 specialty programs designed to zero in on the most pertinent information during patient interactions. According to the… Read More
National Library of New Zealand reduces costs by moving Te Puna Interloan service to OCLC - October 21, 2013
The National Library of New Zealand is working with OCLC to improve interlibrary lending and reduce costs by moving the infrastructure of the national Te Puna Interloan network to the hosted version of OCLC's VDX resource sharing system. OCLC's VDX document delivery and management system… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 21, 2013
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Wojick (US Federal Open Access Rulemakings To Come); Abby Olena (Useless Peer Review?); Barbara Fister (Show Your Work | Peer to Peer Review); David Crotty (A New Science Blogging Scandal: Deja Vu All Over Again); and Ernesto Priego (The… Read More
Elsevier expands DirectCourse for Mental Health Practitioners - October 18, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new curriculum, The College of Recovery and Community Inclusion. In conjunction with the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, Elsevier has made this new curriculum available via DirectCourse, a suite of… Read More
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS names two new Editors-in-Chief - October 18, 2013
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central, has announced the appointment of Prof Lester Drewes (University of Minnesota) and Prof Richard Keep (University of Michigan) as co-Editors-in-Chief of Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, working alongside Hazel… Read More
NISO publishes Data Curation themed issue of Information Standards quarterly in Open Access - October 18, 2013
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of the Fall 2013 issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) with a special theme of Data Curation. Interest in the topic of data curation has increased greatly as many governments and funding organisations have mandated that publicly… Read More
