IMS Health unveils IMS Health Insights, a global thought leadership mobile app - August 21, 2015
Global information and technology services company IMSHealth has announced the immediate availability of IMS Health Insights — a free application that delivers the company's extensive thought leadership materials from 19 major countries directly to Apple and Android tablet devices. Addressing the growing demand for easily… Read More
Dr. Charles Yeo named Editor-in-Chief of Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer journal - August 21, 2015
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced that Dr. Charles Yeo has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer. Dr. Yeo is the Samuel D. Gross Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson… Read More
Library Investment Index summarizes relative size of ARL University Libraries for 2013–2014 - August 21, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the Library Investment Index for 2013–2014, the latest in this annual summary measure of the relative size of the university library members of the Association. Although similar to the ARL Membership Criteria Index in reflecting the investments… Read More
NLM and National Endowment for the Humanities reaffirm partnership on initiatives of common interest - August 21, 2015
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have reaffirmed their partnership, originally established in 2012, following on the visit of NEH Chairman William D. Adams… Read More
World’s first collaborative data centre for education and research gains momentum - August 21, 2015
In the 12 months since the first shared data centre for research and education was launched by Infinity SDC and Jisc, many of the country's top universities, colleges and research institutions have joined to improve efficiency, decrease costs and advance collaboration on world-leading research. A… Read More
Springer retracts 64 articles from 10 Springer subscription journals - August 20, 2015
STM publisher Springer has confirmed that 64 articles are being retracted from 10 Springer subscription journals, after editorial checks spotted fake email addresses, and subsequent internal investigations uncovered fabricated peer review reports. After a thorough investigation it was discovered that the peer review process on these… Read More
