SPARC applauds Senate Committee action on public access legislation - July 30, 2015
The Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) has passed S. 779, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, unanimously by voice vote and moved it to the full Senate for consideration. This marks the first time the Senate has acted on… Read More
Springer and Tsinghua University Press present the second Nano Research Award - July 30, 2015
Paul Alivisatos, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, has received the second Tsinghua University Press – Springer Nano Research Award. The award ceremony took place at the 2015 Sino-US Nano Forum, held from June 25-28… Read More
Pensoft journals, MycoKeys and Nature Conservation, indexed by Scopus - July 30, 2015
Academic publishing company Pensoft has announced that two of its open access journals - MycoKeys and Nature Conservation - are now accepted for indexing by one of the largest abstract and citation databases of peer-reviewed literature Scopus. By joining the vast Scopus family of reputed peer-reviewed… Read More
HealthStream unveils Compensation Planner app for healthcare organisations - July 30, 2015
Healthcare solutions provider HealthStream has announced the launch of the HealthStream Compensation Planner™, a full-featured, SaaS-based application for compensation management in healthcare organisations. With the Compensation Planner’s flexible and easy-to-customise design, healthcare organisations can automate time-consuming workflows, eliminate spreadsheets, make the best possible recommendations for salary… Read More
Sixth edition of The EMBO Meeting scheduled for September 5–8, 2015 - July 30, 2015
The sixth edition of The EMBO Meeting will be held in Birmingham in the United Kingdom from September 5–8, 2015. The EMBO Meeting brings together an outstanding lineup of speakers in one of the largest annual events for the life science community in Europe. It is… Read More
Wiley joins list of document suppliers for FIZ AutoDoc´s pay-per-view option - July 29, 2015
Wiley, the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, has announced that it will be available as a new document supplier for FIZ AutoDoc´s pay-per-view option. Thus, articles from nearly 1,600 Wiley journals, hosted on Wiley Online Library, can now… Read More
