Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 17, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Layers Upon Layers — Taking Advantage of the Great Infrastructure Build-Out of the Twenty Aughts); Duncan Green (What do policymakers want from researchers? Blogs, elevator pitches and good old fashioned press mentions); Alice Northover (Academic publishing gets a… Read More
Nursing2014 journal endorsed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society - March 14, 2014
Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Nursing2014, a peer-reviewed journal of clinical excellence, has been endorsed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organisation focused on better health through information technology (IT). Nursing2014 is part… Read More
SAGE opposes FIRST Act cuts to social, behavioral, and economic science funding and political interference in the NSF grant-application process - March 14, 2014
Social and behavioural sciences publisher SAGE has joined with science associations and American universities in opposing the FIRST Act. This act proposes to cut the funding level for the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences by almost 42 percent and imposes unnecessary… Read More
Cambridge University Press adopts three new initiatives to improve the visibility and accessibility of digital content - March 14, 2014
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced the adoption of three new initiatives, each designed to improve the visibility and accessibility of digital content. Kudos is designed to boost the impact of content published online. Articles are enhanced with additional information by authors (such as… Read More
Prof. D.L. Bliwise appointed Associate Editor of European Urology’s Nocturia Resource Centre - March 14, 2014
The joint editors of European Urology's Nocturia Resource Centre, a freely accessible educational platform designed for healthcare professionals specialised in urology, have announced the appointment of sleep medicine expert, Professor Donald L. Bliwise of Emory University, Atlanta USA, as Associate Editor of this online platform. … Read More
North American Working Group to revise Model License - March 14, 2014
Libraries today must be strongly proactive in shaping the licenses that govern their campuses' electronic information resources. A multi-organisational effort is now underway to strengthen libraries' negotiating position in the e-resources marketplace. In 1997, the LIBLICENSE project (then at Yale Library and since 2011 at the Read More
