BMJ partners with Cochrane Clinical Answers to boost knowledge at the point of care - January 10, 2017
Medical knowledge provider BMJ has teamed up with Cochrane Clinical Answers, a new resource from the Cochrane Library, to better deliver evidence and inform decision making at the point of care. As part of the deal, Cochrane Clinical Answers will be incorporated into BMJ Best Practice… Read More
ProQuest releases results of its 2016 Information Literacy Survey - January 6, 2017
Though 83% of librarians agree that information literacy affects college graduation rates and 97% believe that this skill set contributes to success in the workforce, 44% think that their library does not support information literacy instruction as much as it should. A recent ProQuest survey… Read More
Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results - January 4, 2017
Scientific behavioural medicine journal Translational Behavioral Medicine now publishes research studies that have null results. Some in the scientific community view null results research as a failure because, by its very definition, a null result means what you expected would happen in your study did not happen. Translational Behavioral… Read More
CAS announces early access of SciFindern to select organisations - December 27, 2016
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, unveiled SciFindern early access to key customers in November. A powerful new workflow solution with humanly-curated content at its foundation, SciFindern delivers immediately actionable results at every step of the research process. SciFindern claims to be the first… Read More
The Society for Scholarly Publishing organises regional event covering open access in education - December 27, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) held its first Philadelphia-based regional programming event, 'Open Access in Education: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the Open Syllabus Project in the Context of Scholarly Publishing', on December 7, 2016, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The format… Read More
DirectCourse collaborates with the Association of People Supporting Employment First to provide curricula for new and experienced employment professionals - December 22, 2016
DirectCourse, a collaboration between Elsevier and the University of Minnesota's Research and Training Center on Community Living, is working with the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) to offer the DirectCourse College of Employment Services (CES) curricula to APSE members. CES helps launch new… Read More
