Portico to host webinar on e-book preservation - August 29, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico is organising a 45-minute webinar on e-book preservation. The webinar is scheduled for September 10, 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Amy Kirchhoff, Portico archive product manager and co-author of ‘Preserving E-books,’ a new Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) TechWatch report, will answer the question… Read More
Holiday Notice - August 29, 2014
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on September 1, 2014 on account of Labor Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the August 29th issue. Read More
Thomson Reuters and Hessen University Consortium collaborate to drive the success of German scientific research programs - August 28, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with a consortium of seven Hessen universities and universities of applied science (HeFIS) to streamline its institutions' scholarly information management and workflow. The initiative utilizes Thomson Reuters Converis, a comprehensive research management system… Read More
Oxford University Press provides free access to Ebola resources to combat outbreak in West Africa - August 28, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press is offering free access to several resources across its online products and journals to researchers, healthcare workers, and policymakers in their search for effective treatment and prevention in the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Over the next three months, relevant… Read More
NIH issues final NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy - August 28, 2014
The National Institutes of Health has issued a final NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy to promote data sharing as a way to speed the translation of data into knowledge, products and procedures that improve health while protecting the privacy of research participants. The final policy… Read More
Pharmacy OneSource announces free webinar on NHSN updates - August 28, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health is hosting a complimentary webinar with Joan N. Hebden, RN, MS, CIC in 'NHSN Update: What's New in 2014 and What to Expect in 2015 and Beyond.' In this webinar, Hebden will address the application of the NHSN definitions… Read More
