OCLC names Drew Bordas as Vice President of Management and Customer Operations - July 24, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has named Drew Bordas as Vice President of Management and Customer Operations. He will be responsible for OCLC's Customer Support, Project Management, Implementation Programs and Corporate Quality Assurance functions. In this position, Bordas will lead an… Read More
De Gruyter set to publish natural sciences journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung - July 24, 2014
Academic publisher De Gruyter has announced that it will publish the natural sciences journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung (ZfN), starting in 2015. The journal was originally founded in 1946 by Hans Friedrich-Freksa and Alfred Klemm at the Tübingen institutes of the Max Planck Society (formerly the Kaiser… Read More
Digital Science Invests in London-based scientific start-up, WriteLaTeX - July 24, 2014
Macmillan Science and Education has announced that Digital Science, its global technology division providing software and technology tools to scientists and researchers, has invested in WriteLaTeX - a London based scientific start-up and creators of the leading online collaboration platform for scientific… Read More
Thomson Reuters Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence reaches industry milestone with 180,000 clinical trials - July 23, 2014
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence, its global clinical-drug-trial intelligence database, marked an industry-first milestone with the documentation of more than 180,000 clinical trials, thus providing pharmaceutical professionals with greater and quicker access to critical data and… Read More
ExPub launches new resource to assist occupational health and safety professionals manage impact of chemicals on employees and public - July 23, 2014
Expert Publishing (ExPub), a division of EBSCO Information Services, has announced the launch of PoisonEXPERT, a resource designed to assist occupational health and safety professionals employed by organisations that use or manufacture large quantities of chemicals and need to manage the impact of chemicals on their… Read More
Wiley and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) partner to launch new Open Access journal - July 23, 2014
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) have announced the launch of the Society's first fully open access journal - Geo: Geography and Environment. Geo positions the RGS-IBG and Wiley as world leaders in the publication of geographical research. Geo… Read More