Wolters Kluwer Health upgrades Lippincott Advisor to help long-term care facilities improve nursing care planning - December 16, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that it has further bolstered the use of Lippincott Advisor in the long-term care (LTC) setting. The company has added a new component to the product designed to help LTC nurses and clinicians develop better resident care plans… Read More
Idaho State University opts for EBSCO Discovery Service - December 16, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the Idaho State University Library, a Carnegie-classified doctoral research high institution, has opted to replace Primo Central Total Care with EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) as its discovery solution. Side-by-side comparisons of the discovery tools prompted the university to make… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center appoints Darren Gillgrass as Director, Product Management, Rightsholder Products and Services - December 16, 2014
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, has announced that Darren Gillgrass will join as Director, Product Management, Rightsholder Products and Services, in January 2015. Based in Danvers, Gillgrass will lead a team building next-generation cloud licensing and commerce solutions… Read More
NISO approves four new projects to develop standards for alternative assessment metrics - December 16, 2014
The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved four new projects to develop standards for alternative assessment metrics (altmetrics). The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Initiative was begun in July 2013 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a goal of… Read More
Wellcome Trust announces new Executive Board appointments - December 16, 2014
The Wellcome Trust has announced new appointments to its Executive Board. Tim Livett will join Wellcome Trust as Chief Financial Officer and Ted Smith as Director of People and Development. Tim Livett joins the Trust from Virgin Atlantic, where he has been Chief Financial Officer… Read More
Publishing For Digital Minds pursues global audience with multilingual social media backchannel - December 15, 2014
The London Book Fair, in association with The Publishers Association, has announced plans to put international social media at the heart of the next edition of Publishing for Digital Minds. It will recruit a team of social media experts to live-tweet and blog the 2015 conference… Read More