Gov 2.0 Expo to showcase latest innovations in cloud computing, cybersecurity, collaboration, Web 2.0 - April 26, 2010
Business information provider UBM TechWeb, US, and O'Reilly Media, Inc. will co-produce the Gov 2.0 Expo. The event, scheduled for May 25-27, 2010, in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, will gather technology leaders and visionaries from government and industry to share the… Read More
ACP’s new initiative to provide evidence-based recommendations for specific interventions for clinical problems - April 26, 2010
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has announced plans to provide physicians and patients with evidence-based recommendations for specific interventions for a variety of clinical problems. ACP’s High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care Initiative will assess benefits, harms, and costs of diagnostic tests and treatments for various diseases to… Read More
International forum examines ways to improve quality of healthcare - April 26, 2010
Publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that the 2010 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, held in Nice, had been declared a success by organisers and delegates. This was despite the shutdown of a large part of European airspace due to volcanic ash. The… Read More
Wiley to provide emergency access to scholarly content after a natural disaster - April 26, 2010
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that they have approved a Natural Disaster Access Clause that will extend licensed electronic content to emergency workers, students, faculty, and academic institutions affected by a local, national or global natural disaster. The first license to include… Read More
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions accepted for coverage by Thomson Reuters abstracting and indexing services - April 26, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the American College of Cardiology have announced that the journal JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions has been accepted for coverage by Thomson Reuters (formerly Thomson Scientific/ISI) abstracting and indexing services, including the Journal Citation Reports. The Journal will receive its first impact factor in 2011.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 26, 2010
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Joe Wikert (Payment Models); Mark Lancaster (Why Dynamic Publishing is a Game Changer for Tech Doc); Alix Vance (Mobile Devices and Privacy — Why It’s So Easy to Swap Personal Information to Satisfy an Itch); and Paul Davey (Open access… Read More
