Elsevier, EMBL and University of Copenhagen launch new app for SciVerse - April 15, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of a new application, Reflect-Network, on SciVerse Applications beta. The application was developed in partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark. … Read More
VMware unveils application platform for cloud computing environments - April 15, 2011
VMware, Inc., a US-based provider of virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, recently unveiled Cloud Foundry, claimed to be the industry's first open Platform as a Service (PaaS). Cloud Foundry is said to represent a new generation of application platforms, architected specifically for cloud computing environments and delivered… Read More
Korean firms file antitrust complaint against Google over Android use in mobile devices - April 15, 2011
Internet search services company Google, Inc., US, is reportedly facing antitrust complaints in South Korea due to the increasing dominance of its Android software for mobile phones. In a joint complaint to South Korea's Fair Trade Commission, Korean Internet portal operators NHN… Read More
STM welcomes new RIN report debating the future of scholarly communication - April 15, 2011
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the publication of the RIN report 'Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications.' Commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Publishing Research Consortium, the Wellcome Trust,… Read More
AIP Publishing and SharedBook announce distribution agreement - April 15, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has signed a distribution agreement with publishing innovator SharedBook which makes AIP's catalogue of highly cited journals available through SharedBook's AcademicPub platform. AIP Publishing claims to be the first physical science publisher to make its… Read More
AMA shares physician concerns about burdensome federal regulations with CMS - April 15, 2011
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently addressed a communication to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outlining the federal regulations physicians find most burdensome. The list of these burdensome regulations, along with recommendations to improve them, was obtained through an AMA survey of physicians… Read More
