Elsevier acquires Via Oncology, a clinical decision support solutions provider for oncology professionals - January 18, 2018
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and part of RELX Group, has acquired Via Oncology, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that provides decision support and best practices in cancer care management. A former subsidiary of UPMC, one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare… Read More
SAGE Publishing acquires Data-Planet, expands data offering - January 18, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the purchase of Data-Planet, a statistical multidisciplinary data repository that has application in academic libraries, public libraries, government and commercial markets. Data-Planet Statistical Datasets claims to be the largest collection of organised statistical data and is used by many… Read More
Endocrine Society names Dr. Daniel J. Drucker as Editor-in-Chief of Endocrine Reviews - January 18, 2018
Noted diabetes expert Dr. Daniel J. Drucker has been named Editor-in-Chief of Endocrine Reviews, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Endocrine Society. Drucker's term as Editor-in-Chief will begin July 1, 2018. Drucker is Professor of Medicine and the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair… Read More
South Korean universities reach agreement with Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect - January 17, 2018
A consortium of hundreds of South Korean universities has reportedly reached a new deal with scientific publisher Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect, a database containing content from 3500 academic journals and thousands of electronic books. The agreement includes price hikes between 3.5%… Read More
Oxford University Press joins the Initiative for Open Citations - January 17, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. I4OC is a project which promotes the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data… Read More
Bladder Cancer named official journal of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network - January 17, 2018
STM publisher IOS Press and the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN), have announced that the journal Bladder Cancer will now become the official journal of BCAN. As the result of this new partnership, Bladder Cancer and BCAN will combine resources to support a readily accessible… Read More
