Springer-Verlag France sells French-language STM assets to Lavoisier - September 2, 2014
STM publisher Springer has signed an agreement for the sale of Springer-Verlag France's French-language STM publications to Lavoisier. The transaction is effective as of September 1, 2014. Archives and the articles to be published up to and including December 2016 will continue to be accessible… Read More
ORCID partners with Health Research Alliance to host free webinar on how funders are using ORCID identifiers in their workflows and systems - September 2, 2014
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, is partnering with the Health Research Alliance, a consortium of biomedical research foundations, to host a free webinar on how funders are using ORCID identifiers in their workflows and systems. The webinar… Read More
BioData appoints Louis Culot as new CEO - September 2, 2014
BioData, producer of Labguru, the web-based research and lab management service, has announced the appointment of Louis Culot as the company's new CEO. Culot most recently served as VP Marketing and Business Development at BioDiscovery Inc., developer of genomics software for life science research and clinical… Read More
SPIE Fellow Glenn Boreman elected to serve as 2015 Vice President of SPIE - September 2, 2014
SPIE Fellow Glenn Boreman, Professor and Chairman at the Department of Physics and Optical Science and Director of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Plasmonics, Inc., has been elected… Read More
Nominations now open for HIMSS Awards and Scholarships - September 2, 2014
HIMSS, a cause-based, global enterprise producing health IT thought leadership, education, events, market research and media services around the world, is now accepting nominations for awards and scholarships that recognise significant professional contributions to the field of health IT. Online nominations for both awards and scholarships… Read More
Library Investment Index summarizes relative size of ARL University Libraries for 2012–13 - September 2, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the Library Investment Index for 2012–2013, the latest in this annual summary measure of the relative size of the university library members of the Association. Although similar to the ARL Membership Criteria Index in reflecting the investments made… Read More