National Library of Medicine launches VSAC intensional definition functionality - January 7, 2019
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), with support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has announced the launch of intensional value set definition functionality in the VSAC Authoring Tool. Through the VSAC Authoring user interface, value set… Read More
Call for submissions open for JMIR’s special issue - January 7, 2019
The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to blockchain for health care and biomedical science. Health care is known to suffer from siloed and fragmented data, delayed clinical communications, and disparate… Read More
Library Consortium for Saxony renews De Gruyter e-book license - January 7, 2019
The Konsortium Sachsen (Library Consortium for the German Land of Saxony), which groups the libraries of universities, colleges and professional academies, has renewed its agreement with academic publisher De Gruyter using the evidence-based selection (EBS) model for e-books for 2019 and 2020. The agreement, which… Read More
Frontiers and the University of Rostock announce institutional membership agreement for OA publishing - January 7, 2019
Frontiers and the Universität Rostock (University of Rostock) have announced an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing. The University of Rostock supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University of Rostock has entered an institutional… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 7, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kaden Hazzard (Peer-reviewed physics for Wikipedia: PLOS ONE Topic Pages); Tania Rabesandratana (The world debates open-access mandates); and Chuck Dinerstein (How Do We Redirect Scientific Investigation?). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are… Read More
DeepMatter to acquire InfoChem GmbH from Springer Nature - January 4, 2019
DeepMatter, the AIM-listed company focusing on digitising chemistry, has agreed to acquire from global publisher Springer Nature the entire issued share capital of Infochem GmbH, a specialist in cheminformatics, for a total consideration of approximately €2.0 million to be satisfied as to €0.36 million in cash… Read More
