Wiley and The Cochrane Collaboration launch new health professional development resource – Cochrane Learning - October 8, 2013
The Cochrane Collaboration and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the publisher of The Cochrane Library and Wiley Health Learning activities, have extended their partnership by launching a new health professional development resource called Cochrane Learning. Under the Cochrane Learning umbrella, The Cochrane Collaboration and… Read More
Two-day conference highlights growing interest in using art to train physicians - October 8, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the Art + Medicine: How Art Can Make Better Doctors conference. Co-sponsored by Jefferson Medical College and Elsevier, the conference is scheduled to be held from November 2-3, 2013, at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. It coincides with the annual meeting… Read More
A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals - October 7, 2013
Numerous online journals are willing to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number. This is the conclusion of an elaborate sting carried out by journal Science. The result may as well trouble doctors, patients, policymakers and anyone who has a stake in the… Read More
EBSCO temporarily opens access to valuable education research database during government shutdown - October 4, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that it is making the government database ERIC available during the government shutdown. ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, is typically available through the government website (http://eric.ed.gov/) as well as via EBSCO's EBSCOhost… Read More
W3C Workshop Report: Publishing and the Open Web Platform - October 4, 2013
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the final report of the 'Workshop on the Publishing and the Open Web Platform' that was held September 16-17, 2013, in Paris. The W3C Workshop in Paris was the third in a series of industry consultation events… Read More
Scope completes taxonomy development assignment for Elsevier Health Sciences - October 3, 2013
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, publisher of Knowledgespeak, and a Quatrro Global Services company, has completed an assignment for Elsevier Health Sciences (Elsevier) to develop a taxonomy for PracticeUpdate, an e-portal that offers an array of professional research,… Read More
