Nature-Springer deal further consolidates STM publishing - February 18, 2015
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners announced January 15 an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education — namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of Macmillan Education. This announcement is… Read More
Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products - February 17, 2015
Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products, according to a perspective piece published online February 16 in the Pediatrics journal. Joel Bakan from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues examined whether the fear of… Read More
Medical journals close their eyes when publishing research ruled fraudulent or misleading by FDA - February 16, 2015
Professional journals touting the latest developments in medicine have often ignored serious problems raised by federal health regulators with the research in question, according to a study. Charles Seife, a New York University journalism professor and the study’s author, reviewed 78 published papers on clinical trials with which the… Read More
Springer Publishing Company releases three new iOS nursing apps on the App Store - February 11, 2015
Academic and professional publisher Springer Publishing Company, US, has announced the release of its three new iOS nursing apps on the App Store - Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Q&A Review, Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Certification Q&A Review, and Certified Nurse Educator Q&A Review. All three apps provide… Read More
Unbound Medicine partners with Miami Dade College’s Benjamín León School of Nursing to mobilise learning environment - February 9, 2015
Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has partnered with Miami Dade College's Benjamín León School of Nursing to mobilise their curriculum and create a unique mobile learning environment. Using Unbound's online authoring system, uPub™, faculty developed a digital curriculum… Read More
Hannah Telfer to present third keynote speech at Publishing for Digital Minds Conference - February 9, 2015
The London Book Fair, in association with The Publishers Association, has announced that Hannah Telfer, group director for consumer and digital development of Penguin Random House UK, will give the third keynote speech at the Publishing for Digital Minds Conference. Telfer will join Digital Author… Read More