Frontiers in Physiology launches new section – Embryonic and Developmental Physiology - August 14, 2017
Frontiers in Physiology has announced the launch of a new section, Embryonic and Developmental Physiology. Associate Professor Tim Moss of Monash University, Australia and The Ritchie Centre at Hudson Institute of Medical Research is leading the section as Specialty Chief Editor. Researchers from the field of… Read More
Elsevier announces publication of nine new pharmaceutical science books - August 11, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced the publication of From Artemisia annua L. to Artemisinins: The Discovery and Development of Artemisinins and Antimalarial Agents by Chinese Nobel laureate Youyou Tu. It is the first book that systematically introduces the origin… Read More
Emerald among first to join NISO Open Discovery Initiative - August 11, 2017
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has become one of the first academic publishers to release a set of checklists detailing what it is doing to make the content it publishes easier to find. The NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) checklist helps publishers convey, in a standard… Read More
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
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
