Ovid wins national contract to supply NHS England with key online medical, nursing and healthcare databases - March 5, 2008
US-based information research solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the National Library for Health (NLH) to supply all National Health Service hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout England with electronic access to important medical, healthcare… Read More
Author-it CEO Paul Trotter to join board of CM Pros - March 5, 2008
Author-it Software Corporation, a New Zealand-based provider of software for authoring, content management, publishing and localisation, has announced that CEO Paul Trotter has been elected to the 2008-2009 Content Management Professionals (CM Pros) Board of Directors. CM Pros provides information, expertise and support to its members… Read More
Thomson Scientific launches ScienceWatch.com - March 5, 2008
Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced the launch of ScienceWatch.com, a free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis. ScienceWatch.com combines the latest Science Watch newsletter material and regularly updated data, analysis, interviews, and commentary that had been previously… Read More
AOSSM names Editors for its new multidisciplinary sports medicine journal - March 5, 2008
The Board of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Medical Publishing Group has announced the selections of Dr. Edward M. Wojtys, Dr. George J. Davies, Dr. Matthew Gammons and Dr. Riann Palmeri-Smith as the founding editors of its forthcoming journal Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary… Read More
Dear Subscribers - March 5, 2008
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Traditional academic publishers support current open access repository principles, says report - March 4, 2008
The SURFfoundation has released the results of an inquiry into the copyright policies of traditional academic publishers. A group of forty seven traditional publishers, who do not currently allow Open Access, were assessed and it was found that these publishers are increasingly interested in allowing the… Read More