CCC’s ‘Get It Now’ article delivery service now available for adoption by academic libraries in Sweden - February 18, 2015
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), has announced that its 'Get It Now' article delivery service is now available for adoption by academic institutions of higher education in Sweden. Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden is the first school outside… Read More
Wellcome Trust appoints Prof Stephen Caddick as Director of Innovations - February 18, 2015
The Wellcome Trust has announced the appointment of Professor Stephen Caddick as Director of the Innovations division. Professor Caddick succeeds Dr Ted Bianco, who retires from the Trust later this year. Over the past five years, Professor Caddick has led UCL's strategy for enterprise and… Read More
AstraZeneca licences Labguru Research and Lab Management Software - February 18, 2015
BioData, producer of Labguru, the web-based research and lab management system, has announced that the Innovative Medicines unit of global pharmaceutical business, AstraZeneca, has adopted the Labguru platform for the global management of biological reagents used in pre-clinical research. Scientists will use the Labguru platform… Read More
Maverix Analytic Platform integrates with Elsevier Pathway Studio for seamless NGS analysis workflow to assist critical decision making - February 17, 2015
Maverix Biomics Inc. has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with STM publisher Elsevier to streamline the interpretation of raw next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to reveal new insights and to assist with critical decision making. The announcement was made at the 23rd International… Read More
Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products - February 17, 2015
Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products, according to a perspective piece published online February 16 in the Pediatrics journal. Joel Bakan from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues examined whether the fear of… Read More
Springer expands co-publication partnership with Science China Press, launches new journal - February 17, 2015
STM publisher Springer has launched a new journal Science China Materials (SCMs). Part of the Science China Press (SCP) journal series, the international peer-reviewed journal covers all aspects of materials science. It is co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation… Read More
