Elsevier and METI partner to integrate nursing education content and solutions with human patient simulators - May 24, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a partnership agreement with Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI), a manufacturer of medical simulation and healthcare learning technologies. The companies will collaborate to release a turn-key healthcare education product that combines Elsevier's nursing education content with METI's human patient simulators.… Read More
EBSCO Publishing expands corporate learning offerings - May 24, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has expanded its corporate learning offerings to include a ready to use, web-based training center. EBSCO and Business & Legal Resources (BLR) have signed an agreement enabling corporations and government agencies to subscribe to BLR's Employee Training Center… Read More
University of Cincinnati Libraries selects Serials Solutions Summon discovery service to enhance accessibility - May 24, 2011
Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that the University of Cincinnati Libraries have selected Serials Solutions Summon web-scale discovery service to enhance the accessibility of its vast array of e-resources and library… Read More
New American Chemical Society videos focus on DOE quest for new energy sources - May 24, 2011
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has released two new videos that illustrate how the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Centers are speeding the development of critically-needed new sources of energy by linking top scientists in multiple disciplines. The ACS Voices of… Read More
O’Reilly Media selects Ingram’s CoreSource for digital asset management and distribution - May 24, 2011
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced that publisher O'Reilly Media has selected Ingram's CoreSource platform for digital asset management and distribution. O'Reilly's selection of CoreSource builds on the two companies' total inventory management agreement announced earlier in April this year. … Read More
NLM releases digital versions of American medical books from 17th century onwards - May 24, 2011
The US' National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has released 'Medicine in the Americas', a digital resource encompassing over 300 early American printed books. The resource makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from… Read More