Dear Subscribers - January 4, 2008
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Scientific and teaching organisations report on national survey to determine public views of evolution education - January 3, 2008
A coalition of 17 scientific societies and science teachers, including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Physics, and the National Science Teachers Association, has called on the scientific community to become more involved in the promotion of science education, including evolution. According to an article in the… Read More
Reed Elsevier hoping for higher growth in profit per share - January 3, 2008
Publisher Reed Elsevier, Netherlands, expects that cost cuts will help it achieve growth of over 10 percent in annual profit per share. The publisher will reportedly keep its official target at a growth rate of at least 10 percent annually, but internally it hopes for improved… Read More
SCImago launches free journal-ranking tool - January 3, 2008
SCImago, a data-mining and visualisation group at the universities of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III and Alcalá de Henares, Spain, recently launched the SCImago Journal & Country Rank database. The new Internet database lets users generate on-the-fly citation statistics of published research papers for free. It ranks… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell announces new publishing partnerships, expands presence in the Asia-Pacific region - January 3, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced two new publishing partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the new deals, the global publisher will publish Basic & Applied Pathology and Pacific Focus from 2008. While Basic & Applied… Read More
American Journal of Ophthalmology publishes report on long-term study of high myopia patients - January 3, 2008
In an article published in the January 2008 issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, researchers from Miguel Hernandez University, Medical School, Spain, and Ankara University School of Medicine, Turkey, report on a study of high myopia patients ten years after LASIK surgery. The findings show… Read More
