BioMed Central announces winner of 7th Annual Research Awards - April 23, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the winner of the 7th Annual Research Awards. The awards honour the very best research published in one of BioMed Central's 250 plus open access journals in 2012. The winners of the BioMed Central Research Award, supported by… Read More
SAGE’s office in Beijing now a Wholly Owned Enterprise in China - April 23, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that SAGE's office in Beijing is now a Wholly Owned Enterprise (WFOE) in China, under the name of SAGE Consulting (Beijing) Co. Ltd. SAGE first established a presence in the Asia Pacific region in 2006, opening a regional headquarters in… Read More
Pearson acquires learning analytics and assessment startup, Learning Catalytics - April 23, 2013
Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, has acquired Learning Catalytics, a cloud-based learning analytics and assessment system developed by Eric Mazur, Brian Lukoff and Gary King of Harvard University. Learning Catalytics reportedly allows faculty to obtain real-time responses to open-ended or critical… Read More
Elsevier launches Mosby’s Nursing Consult App - April 22, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of its Mosby's Nursing Consult App, now on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Mosby's Nursing Consult puts trusted clinical information into nurses' hands. Features include patient education (including Spanish when available); drug calculators; drug… Read More
Publisher associations unveil safe harbour rules for use of out-of-commerce journals - April 22, 2013
The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), and the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have issued a joint statement setting out clear rules for the digitisation of… Read More
CHILL selects EBSCO to provide health and medical information to libraries in Greater London - April 22, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO has announced that it has been selected as dual supplier of print and electronic serials subscriptions, packages and databases for CHILL, the Consortium of Independent Health Information Libraries in London (an association of forty-three libraries in the greater London area, specialising in… Read More
