Georgia Department of Education selects CTB/McGraw-Hill to develop new online standardized student assessment - July 7, 2014
CTB/McGraw-Hill, one of US's leading educational assessment partners, has announced that the Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) has selected the company to develop a new customised state assessment for all Georgia students. The project will replace the state's current Criterion-Referenced Competency Test and End of Course… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 7, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Derek (Scientific Journals: Who Pays What?); Michael Kozlowski (Libraries Starting to Adopt Pay Per Use for Digital Content); Joseph Esposito (The Business Model is a Community Affair); Dave Carr and Natalie Banner (Maximising the value of research data: developing incentives… Read More
Reed Technology and Information Services announces definitive agreement to acquire PatentCore - July 3, 2014
Reed Technology and Information Services Inc., a LexisNexis company, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire PatentCore, a privately held developer of the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor solution suite. The acquisition will extend the LexisNexis intellectual property (IP) offerings and give customers access to a broader range… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health and ASAM release The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine, Fifth Edition - July 3, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, together with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) recently introduced The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine, Fifth Edition, one of the most respected references on the science of addiction and… Read More
Zoological Letters joins BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform - July 3, 2014
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Zoological Letters, the official academic journal of The Zoological Society of Japan (ZSJ), will be launched from BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. Zoological Letters considers original contributions relevant to zoology and related fields in the form… Read More
Heike Schwabenthan to head Rights and Licensing at Thieme Publishing Group - July 3, 2014
Medical and scientific publishing house Thieme Publishing Group has announced that Heike Schwabenthan, formerly an associate in the Rights Department, has been promoted and will now head the unit going forward. A 13-year veteran of Thieme’s Rights Department, Heike Schwabenthan and her team handle… Read More
