California Precision Medicine Consortium joins NIH to launch All of Us Research Program - May 7, 2018
The 'All of Us' Research Program officially opened for enrollment on May 6, 2018. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living… Read More
Macmillan Learning, Intellus Learning, and OhioLINK partner to provide students with affordable materials and insights - May 7, 2018
Macmillan Learning, a premier educational solutions and insights provider, and OhioLINK, a consortium of 120 academic libraries distributed among 91 Ohio colleges and universities, have announced a strategic offering designed to make course materials more affordable. This multi-pronged approach includes a textbook pricing agreement and Intellus… Read More
Deadline for Library Assessment Conference 2018 call for proposals extended to May 11 - May 7, 2018
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Steering Committee have extended the deadline for submitting paper and poster proposals for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference to May 11, 2018. The seventh biennial Library Assessment Conference will be held… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 7, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Dr Dina Balabanova and Jamie Lundine (How does gender influence the academic publishing process?); Michel Hockx (Journals censorship is not bowdlerisation); George Helffrich (Peer Review's Psychological Potholes); Rick Anderson (Is Copyright Piracy Morally Wrong or Merely Illegal? The Malum Prohibitum/Malum… Read More
EBSCO Health launches shared decision making product – Option GridTM decision aids - May 4, 2018
EBSCO Health, a provider of evidence-based clinical resource tools including DynaMed Plus® and Dynamic Health™, has announced the launch of a shared decision making product, Option Grid™ decision aids. The Option Grid concept was originally created by Professors Glyn Elwyn and Marie-Anne Durand in 2010 and… Read More
Inspec adds over 220 key journals from Institute of Civil Engineers, Taylor & Francis, SAGE and ACM - May 4, 2018
More than 220 leading journals have been added to Inspec, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's globally renowned abstracts and index database for physics, electronics, computing and engineering. The Institute of Civil Engineers, Taylor & Francis, SAGE and ACM are amongst the list of prestigious publishers.… Read More
