Overleaf and Bookmetrix announced as finalists in the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2015 - July 6, 2015
Overleaf and Bookmetrix, the joint project between Altmetric and Springer, have both been announced as finalists in the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2015. The ALPSP awards are open to any new development, product, service, launch or project which is… Read More
Brazil’s Hospital Metropolitano Sul Dom Helder Câmara opts for UpToDate Anywhere clinical decision support - July 6, 2015
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that the Hospital Metropolitano Sul Dom Helder Câmara (HDH) in Brazil is launching UpToDate® Anywhere mobile clinical decision support on the occasion of the hospital's fifth anniversary. … Read More
SHERPA/FACT found to be over 95 percent accurate when checking publisher policies against funder mandates for open access - July 6, 2015
SHERPA/FACT, the funders and author's compliance tool, has been found to be more than 95 percent accurate when checking publisher policies against funder mandates for open access – significantly higher than even experienced repository managers. A study by the SHERPA/FACT advisory group compared the information… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing and Portico extend relationship to preserve e-books - July 6, 2015
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing is extending its relationship with Portico to preserve its e-books in the Portico archive. With this move, Emerald seeks to ensure that their e-book content will be secure and available into the future. Established in 1967,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 6, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kevin L. Smith (Does the Copyright Office Belong in a Library? | Peer to Peer Review); Phill Jones (What Do You Hear When You Buy a Researcher a Beer? Frustration!); Lettie Conrad (Guest Post: Lettie Conrad on Metadata Promiscuity and… Read More
Elsevier acquires clinical decision support technology provider, InferMed - July 2, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of InferMed, a London-based clinical decision support (CDS) technology company. InferMed's Arezzo technology supports clinicians in choosing the most appropriate treatment path for each patient. Arezzo matches appropriate evidence-based guidelines with patient information and dynamically evaluates best-practice options in… Read More
