Elsevier’s PharmaPendium boosts UCL’s research in drug repurposing and personalised medicine - August 25, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that UCL has subscribed to PharmaPendium, part of Elsevier's R&D Solutions for Pharma and Life Sciences. PharmaPendium is a decision support solution designed to help improve drug development decisions by enabling access to the most comprehensive resource of fully searchable FDA/EMA… Read More
ALPSP conference to discuss how to use text mining to extract sentiment, insights and opinions from Twitter - August 24, 2015
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers has announced that Guy Singh of Linguamatics will be discussing how text mining can be applied to Twitter, a medium which uses a combination of both standard language, colloquialisms, slang and Twitter specific notation. This forms part of… Read More
Special issue of the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics focuses on the ethical implications of sharing health research data in low and middle income settings - August 24, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that a new special issue of its Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JERHRE) presents guidelines, protocols, models, and new resources to improve data sharing across the globe. With the globalisation of biomedical research and growing concerns about… Read More
Johnson Matthey and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co., Ltd. sign Memorandum of Understanding - August 24, 2015
Johnson Matthey's Chief Executive, Robert MacLeod recently announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Johnson Matthey and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co., Ltd. (CASH). CASH is wholly owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China's top science and technology research… Read More
Cerner and CoverMyMeds in deal to integrate CoverMyMeds’ ePA within Cerner’s Millennium EHR - August 24, 2015
Cerner, a global leader in healthcare technology, and CoverMyMeds, the nation's leading electronic prior authorisation (ePA) platform, have announced an agreement to integrate CoverMyMeds' ePA within Cerner's Millennium® EHR. The advanced functionality will provide more than 350,000 e-prescribing end users the ability to accelerate the prescription… Read More
2013-14 ARL Library Investment Index Rankings once again list Penn State University Libraries among top research libraries in North America - August 24, 2015
Penn State's University Libraries again have been recognized among the top research universities in North America, according to the recently released 2013-14 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Library Investment Index Rankings in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The University Libraries are… Read More