SCRIP Intelligence names veteran healthcare journalist Brett Chase US Companies Editor - February 27, 2013
SCRIP Intelligence, an Informa company and a leading source of news and strategic analysis for the global pharmaceutical industry, has announced that veteran healthcare journalist Brett Chase has been named US Companies Editor. Chase most recently was a regular contributor on the drug and biotechnology… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert launches MOOCs Forum, the public venue for sharing and shaping developments in Massive Open Online Courses - February 27, 2013
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced the launch of MOOCs Forum to serve as the host and chronicle for discussions, debates, announcements, and advancements for all issues and constituents in the Massive Open Online Courses community. The journal will be published online with Open… Read More
De Gruyter acquires academic publishers Oldenbourg and Akademie - February 27, 2013
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced the acquisition of two academic publishers with a long and rich tradition - Akademie Verlag, based in Berlin, and Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, based in Munich. Both companies were acquired retroactively as of January 1, 2013 from Franz Cornelsen Bildungsgruppe, which… Read More
EBSCO Publishing releases CINAHL Complete - February 27, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that CINAHL, a research tool for nursing and allied health literature, will now provide even more content with the introduction of CINAHL Complete. The database will offer 71 percent more full-text journals… Read More
WK Health expands Medi-Span to include Patient Safety Programs File - February 27, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that its Medi-Span solution has been expanded to include a new Patient Safety Programs File. The application enables health IT systems to rapidly identify drugs containing specific characteristics that require surveillance based on federal regulations.… Read More
RSC to host UK’s chemical database service and develop chemistry data repository - February 27, 2013
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has won the tender from EPSRC to operate the UK National Chemical Database Service from 2013 to 2017. The service, providing access to selected data sources to UK academic researchers, was launched on January 2, 2013 with an initial… Read More
