New Year Greetings - January 1, 2008
ACS launches Bytesize Science – a new podcast for young listeners - January 1, 2008 The American Chemical Society (ACS) Office of Communications has launched Bytesize Science, an educational, entertaining podcast for young listeners. Bytesize Science translates cutting-edge scientific discoveries from ACS' 36 peer-reviewed journals into stories for young listeners. It includes content from Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly news… Read More American Journal of Ophthalmology report on how cost of glaucoma medications may impact treatment - January 1, 2008 An article published in the January 2008 issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, researchers from The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine, analysed the economics of medically managing glaucoma. The management of glaucoma reportedly costs about $2.5 billion per year in… Read More Dr. Fred Phillips named Senior Editor of Elsevier journal - January 1, 2008 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, recently named Dr. Fred Phillips as Senior Editor of Technological Forecasting & Social Change (TFSC). Published continuously since 1967, TFSC publishes peer-reviewed advances in technology assessment, forecasting, and policy. In his new position, Phillips will cooperate with TFSC founding editor Harold Linstone… Read More Libraries, publishers of German speaking nations agree on scientific document delivery - December 31, 2007 Representatives of Subito e.V., a Berlin-based consortium of scientific libraries in German-speaking countries, and representatives of various international and German STM publishers have endorsed the text of a framework agreement. The agreement relates to the delivery of scientific documents within four German-speaking countries - Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Finalised… Read More International Research Conference calls for papers - December 31, 2007 The 35th International Research Conference, organised by the International Associations of Research Organizations for the Information, Media and Graphic Arts Industries (iarigai), will be held in Valencia, Spain, from September 7-10, 2008. The theme for the conference is 'Advances in Printing and Media Technology.' Researchers and… Read More
