NLM Director Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan appointed Interim NIH Associate Director for Data Science - January 9, 2017
The National Institutes of Health has announced that National Library of Medicine Director Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan will assume an additional role as NIH Interim Associate Director for Data Science. Her appointment begins immediately. The Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) and team provide input… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 9, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Carl Straumsheim (The Shrinking Mega-Journal); Kent Anderson (The Price of Silicon Valley’s “Disruption” — Is It Possible to Now Have Responsible Information Economics?); Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee (Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?); Swarnali Saha (Is language barrier… Read More
MediMobile selects Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language Solutions to enhance charge capture and revenue cycle management for providers - January 6, 2017
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer has announced that MediMobile has selected its Health Language® Provider Friendly Terminology solution to improve billing accuracy in its enterprise-level mobile charge capture solution. MediMobile's user base will leverage the terminology solution to reduce physician search time and improve revenue… Read More
Cambridge University Press appoints Brigitte Shull as Senior VP for Academic Publishing in the Americas - January 6, 2017
Academic and educational publisher Cambridge University Press has announced the appointment of Brigitte Shull as Senior Vice President for Academic Publishing in the Americas. Brigitte Shull, who was most recently the Vice President of Management, Business, Economics, and Political Science Publishing at Springer Nature, will… Read More
ProQuest releases results of its 2016 Information Literacy Survey - January 6, 2017
Though 83% of librarians agree that information literacy affects college graduation rates and 97% believe that this skill set contributes to success in the workforce, 44% think that their library does not support information literacy instruction as much as it should. A recent ProQuest survey… Read More
Oxford University Press partners with The Gerontological Society of America to publish Innovation in Aging - January 6, 2017
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced a partnership with The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) to publish Innovation in Aging, a new peer-reviewed, open access interdisciplinary journal, beginning in January 2017. Innovation in Aging joins a distinguished collection of… Read More
