Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Corp announce strategic partnership to form new Barnes & Noble subsidiary - May 2, 2012
Book retailer Barnes & Noble, US, and software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, have announced a strategic partnership to form a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will build upon the history of strong innovation in digital reading technologies from both companies. It is expected that the… Read More
MEI overhauls Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s quarterly publication using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite - May 2, 2012
Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe premier development partner, has announced that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is now using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to produce the iPad edition of its quarterly magazine - HHMI Bulletin. HHMI hired MEI's design and production team to help… Read More
UK public sector saving £28 million through open access to scholarly content, say reports - May 2, 2012
The UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) has released two reports that say open access (OA) to published scholarly research offers significant benefits to the UK. The UK public sector already saves £28.6 million by using OA. The reports make it clear that both the… Read More
Elsevier appoints Hajo Oltmanns to lead expansion of CPM’s clinical decision support tools - May 2, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Hajo Oltmanns as the new President of Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM), a firm developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare. Hajo will lead the continued development and expansion of CPM's clinical decision support tools and… Read More
Future Medicinal Chemistry publishes mini focus on rheumatology - May 2, 2012
Future Medicinal Chemistry, a journal published by Future Science Ltd., UK, has published a mini focus dedicated to developments in the area of rheumatology, with contributions from academic experts based in Europe, North America and Asia. Rheumatology is a topic at the forefront of medicinal… Read More
DCC unveils Vitae’s Information Literacy lens and ‘Informed Researcher’ booklet - May 2, 2012
The UK's Digital Curation Centre (DCC), as a member of the RIN Working Group on Information Handling, has announced new publications from Vitae. Being informed and informative are seen as important aspects of being a researcher. In an increasingly information based society, information literacy is… Read More
