2013 BERA/SAGE awards recognise excellence in the application of research in practice - August 23, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the recipients of the 2013 BERA/SAGE Practitioner Research Awards. For the seventh year running the BERA/SAGE awards has recognised practitioners who have demonstrated excellence in research-based practice in an under 18 setting and over 18 setting respectively. SAGE awards £500… Read More
JMLA and JPLA approve Portland Press’ first consortium proposal to Japan - August 23, 2013
Portland Press Limited has announced that their first consortium proposal to Japan has been approved by the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA) and Japan Pharmaceutical Library Association (JPLA), by assistance of USACO Corporation, their exclusive agent in Japan. This consortium proposal allows JMLA and JPLA members… Read More
BMJ set to launch new open access respiratory medicine title - August 22, 2013
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has announced the launch of a new respiratory medicine journal next month. BMJ Open Respiratory Research will be published in partnership with the British Thoracic Society, which already co-owns Thorax, one of over 45 specialist titles from BMJ. BMJ Open… Read More
Creative Commons CC0 waiver to become part of BioMed Central’s Copyright and License Agreement - August 22, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that the Creative Commons CC0 waiver will become part of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement on September 3, 2013. For articles submitted from this date, CC0 will apply to data in all articles published by BioMed Central… Read More
International Journal for Equity in Health launches new thematic series on Multimorbidity and Equity in Health - August 21, 2013
The International Journal for Equity in Health, published by BioMed Central, has launched a new thematic series on Multimorbidity and Equity in Health, which aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on multimorbidity (MM) and equity in diverse populations worldwide. It brings together papers… Read More
SAGE honoured with three APEX Awards for Publication Excellence - August 21, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it was recently honoured by the editors of Writer's Web Watch with three Annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX). The Canadian Pharmacists Journal was recognised in the category of Magazine & Journal Design & Layout, the United European Gastroenterology (UEG)… Read More