Wolters Kluwer Clinical Drug Information connects customers to newly released ACA FUL Drug pricing data - April 4, 2016
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that customers can now access the newly-released Affordable Care Act Federal Upper Limit drug pricing benchmark, or ACA FUL, through two solutions from its… Read More
Cochrane Canada comes home to McMaster University - April 4, 2016
Cochrane, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health, has announced that Cochrane Canada has returned to McMaster University in Hamilton. Cochrane Canada's return to McMaster University will be led by a new Director, Holger Schünemann. The centre will… Read More
NLM awards 2016-2021 Regional Medical Library cooperative agreements - April 4, 2016
On April 1, 2016, the National Library of Medicine awarded five-year cooperative agreements to eight institutions to serve as Regional Medical Libraries (RMLs) and five National Coordinating Offices in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM). The agreements begin May 1, 2016. The Network consists… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 4, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…Elsevier to Purchase Sci-Hub); Ann Marie Navar (Open access platforms underutilized); ProQuest Blog (Context is King in Research); and Roger C. Schonfeld (How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant… Read More
Thieme realigns leadership structure - April 1, 2016
As of April 1, 2016, Dr. H.C. Albrecht Hauff, publisher and managing partner of the Thieme Publishing Group, and Thieme’s managing director Dr. Wolfgang Knüppe will appoint four executives to the newly formed extended management board. With the new management line-up, the leading provider of media… Read More
OCLC and the National Library of the Netherlands sign new long-term agreement for metadata management and discovery services - April 1, 2016
OCLC and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, have signed a new long-term partnership agreement for metadata management and discovery services that will increase the visibility of Dutch public libraries' collections. Under the new agreement, library metadata workflows will be moved… Read More