Nature Index points industry to institutions providing ideas behind inventions - August 10, 2017
The Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement sheds new light on the impact academic research is having on innovation by examining how research articles are cited in third party patents. By looking at patents owned by third parties – informed by and citing academic work – rather… Read More
Elsevier announces exclusive agreement with the Visiting Nurse Associations of America for online clinical skills for home healthcare clinicians - August 10, 2017
Elsevier, an information and analytics business, has entered an exclusive agreement with the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) to develop Hospice Skills and more than 400 home healthcare skills from the VNAA's award-winning Clinical Procedures Manual. The partnership will deliver VNAA content to the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer announces availability of ProVation Order Sets integration with Epic - August 10, 2017
Wolters Kluwer Heath has announced ProVation® Order Sets integration with Epic software to support the importing and exporting of information. This integration enables healthcare providers to streamline labor-intensive governance processes, optimise order set management and support existing order sets with evidence-based clinical content. ProVation Order… Read More
Oxford University Press appoints David Clark as new Managing Director for its Academic Division - August 10, 2017
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has appointed David Clark, Senior Vice President for Health and Medical Sciences at Elsevier, as the new Managing Director of its Academic Division. David will succeed the outgoing Managing Director, Tim Barton, who leaves OUP in September after 25 years.… Read More
Kinokuniya Company named exclusive sales representative for SPIE Journals in Japan - August 10, 2017
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced an agreement establishing Kinokuniya Company Ltd. as its exclusive sales representative for SPIE Journals in Japan. Kinokuniya has a longstanding relationship with SPIE as the exclusive sales representative for the SPIE Digital Library in Japan. … Read More
Portico’s director of publisher relations, Stephanie Orphan, elected to OASPA board - August 10, 2017
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that its director of publisher relations, Stephanie Orphan, has been elected by the members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) to serve on the board of directors for a term of three years. … Read More