Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters launches second annual Metrics Mania - March 17, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of the second annual Metrics Mania, a unique competition designed to measure the research impact of American universities participating in the national college basketball championships. The competition will begin March 17, and close… Read More
Cornell University Libraries face increasing journal costs - March 17, 2014
Cornell University Library's budget is being 'stretched thin' due to the "dramatically increasing" prices of scientific journals, according to Prof. Nerissa Russell, anthropology, chair of the University Faculty Library Board. According to Russell, there's been tremendous consolidation in the publishers, and things that used to… Read More
Department of Health selects ArchivalWare digital repository system - March 17, 2014
As part of a major enhancement of its library service the Department of Health has chosen the ArchivalWare digital repository system to provide on-line access to its collection of circulars and guidance documents issued by the department since 1970, and other archive materials over time. ArchivalWare™ allows organisations to… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 17, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Layers Upon Layers — Taking Advantage of the Great Infrastructure Build-Out of the Twenty Aughts); Duncan Green (What do policymakers want from researchers? Blogs, elevator pitches and good old fashioned press mentions); Alice Northover (Academic publishing gets a… Read More
Nursing2014 journal endorsed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society - March 14, 2014
Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Nursing2014, a peer-reviewed journal of clinical excellence, has been endorsed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organisation focused on better health through information technology (IT). Nursing2014 is part… Read More
SAGE opposes FIRST Act cuts to social, behavioral, and economic science funding and political interference in the NSF grant-application process - March 14, 2014
Social and behavioural sciences publisher SAGE has joined with science associations and American universities in opposing the FIRST Act. This act proposes to cut the funding level for the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences by almost 42 percent and imposes unnecessary… Read More
