New UBM business merges EE Times Group and Canon Communications Electronics properties - October 28, 2010
Niche information services provider United Business Media Ltd. (UBM), UK, has announced the formation of a new company, UBM Electronics, from the merger of UBM's existing EE Times Group portfolio with the electronics-related properties it recently acquired through the purchase of Canon Communications LLC. The new… Read More
Attention Subscribers – www.myscoope.com lets you access Knowledgespeak using your mobile devices - October 28, 2010
Mobile access for Knowledgespeak is now available via our new beta application, SCOOPE STM Mobile. Subscribers on the move can now gain easy access to Knowledgespeak through a reader-friendly mobile phone interface. This application is uniquely available in two versions:… Read More
Better transparency needed on medical journals’ competing interests, says research - October 27, 2010
This week's PLoS Medicine has published a research article by Andreas Lundh and colleagues from the Nordic Cochrane Centre. The article concludes that journals need to develop policies to handle the inevitable competing interests that arise when they publish papers that may… Read More
IEEE launches IEEE P2030.2 Working Group - October 27, 2010
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US, has announced the launch of the IEEE P2030.2 Working Group (WG). Tasked with facilitating wide-scale, consistent implementation of energy storage systems, the P2030.2 WG will deliver guidelines for discrete and hybrid energy storage systems that are integrated… Read More
Key initiatives, good response seen at Open Access Week 2010 - October 27, 2010
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that this year's Open Access Week came to a close on October 24. With just under 900 participants in 94 countries, this year's event was three times larger than it was just a year ago. Hundreds… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins to publish RSPA journal, Pathology - October 27, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has signed an agreement to serve as exclusive publisher for the journal Pathology, effective January 1, 2011. The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA), which produces Pathology, is… Read More
