IMS Health announces acquisition of Forcea - May 12, 2014
Information, technology and services provider IMS Health has acquired Forcea, a leading Belgium-based provider of business intelligence applications and analytics, to advance performance management capabilities for hospitals and life sciences organisations around the globe. The acquisition brings together IMS Health’s comprehensive information and technology services with… Read More
Allen Press to host sixth annual Best Practices and Innovative Solutions webinar series - May 12, 2014
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, will host the sixth annual Best Practices and Innovative Solutions webinar series beginning this June. These six one-hour webinars, designed for societies, associations, and publishers, will be presented monthly beginning June 12 and ending November 20. Attendees can… Read More
Semantico announces new appointments - May 12, 2014
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has announced new appointments in the senior management team. Richard Padley is now the Chief Executive Officer of Semantico Ltd (UK) and Semantico Inc. (USA). Richard will be working closely with the Semantico board of directors to direct… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 12, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (How Do We Address the Continuing Problem of Inadequate and Deceptive Publishing Practices?); Cameron Neylon (Fork, merge and crowd-sourcing data curation: tools for collective data processing and analysis); Samuel Gershman (The Exploitative Economics of Academic Publishing); Rick Anderson… Read More
SPARC announces ‘Generation Open’ as theme for 2014 International Open Access Week - May 9, 2014
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that the theme for this year's International Open Access Week is "Generation Open". The theme will highlight the importance of students and early career researchers as advocates for change in the short-term, through institutional and governmental… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journal portfolio receives 23 ASHPE awards for Editorial and Design Excellence - May 9, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, recently announced that its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio has won 23 awards across 19 categories in the 2014 American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) annual… Read More
