CourseSmart and Desire2Learn partnership to enhance access to digital educational resources - November 11, 2011
Digital course materials supplier CourseSmart LLC, US, has partnered with Desire2Learn Incorporated, (Desire2Learn), a provider of enterprise teaching and learning platforms, to provide an end-to-end integration that facilitates an efficient, one-stop process for students and faculty to access digital course materials. Students and faculty will have… Read More
CAPES and Thomson Reuters expand agreement to provide Micromedex clinical information to Brazil’s Sentinel Hospital Network - November 11, 2011
The Coordination for the Improvement of Personnel in Higher Education (CAPES) has expanded its agreement with the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters to include the provision of clinical content to Brazil's Sentinel Hospital Network. Through CAPES, Thomson Reuters provides its Micromedex solutions - including evidence-based… Read More
Faculty of 1000 and DynaMed partner to better serve medical professionals needs - November 10, 2011
Article evaluation services provider Faculty of 1000 (F1000), UK, and DynaMed have announced a partnership to better serve the needs of medical professionals looking for rapid access to the best available medical evidence. The partnership expands the DynaMed community to more than… Read More
University of Arizona opts for BioMed’s Open Repository service - November 10, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the University of Arizona has become the first academic institute in the US to adopt its 'Open Repository' service. The service builds, hosts and maintains uniquely customised DSpace repositories on behalf of organisations. Through the implementation… Read More
Thieme Publishing Group’ new user-friendly atlas to help students master Neuroanatomy - November 9, 2011
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, recently published the 'Atlas of Neuroanatomy for Communication Science and Disorders.' The atlas gives students a complete understanding of the basic anatomy and physiology of human communication, the neural mechanisms controlling speech, language, cognition and swallowing functions, and the anatomic… Read More
JISC project with Learning Registry on social media tech for educational content - November 9, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that the nation will participate in a global experiment based on the social media technology behind Twitter and Facebook. The project seeks to find out how the social activity around online educational content can be captured and… Read More
