Texas Southmost College partners with Pearson for all-digital content programmes - October 16, 2012
Texas Southmost College (TSC) has partnered with Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, to provide digital content, services and technology in support of its transition to an independent, two-year public community college in fall 2013. The new institution will feature digital delivery of… Read More
Global Health database from CABI hits 2 million records - October 15, 2012
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that its specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database, Global Health, now has over 2 million records. Derived from over 6,000 journals, reports, books and conferences, the open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature mean that over… Read More
Thomson Reuters and Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan honour country’s leading scientific researchers and journals - October 15, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters joined the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan to honour the country's leading scientific researchers and journals, across a variety of disciplines. The 'Perspectives of Science and Development in Azerbaijan' award ceremony… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair witnesses ten percent growth in participation/networking of international content industries - October 15, 2012
The Frankfurt Book Fair ended October 14, 2012, with a small increase in visitor numbers on last year, while demonstrating the 'courage and innovative power of Europe, and of the international publishing industry'. The conference and seminar programme of the Frankfurt Academy recorded a ten percent… Read More
Elsevier Australia releases updated edition of mental health nursing textbook - October 15, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier Australia has announced the publication of a revised third edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, a textbook by Elder, Evans and Nizette. As the Australian government attempts to address shortages in the mental health workforce, specifically mental health nursing, and expand the… Read More
RSC’s Dr Antony Williams honoured for his work on the ChemSpider platform - October 15, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that Dr Antony Williams, VP for Strategic Development and Head of the Cheminformatics group, for the RSC has been honoured by Microsoft Research for his outstanding contribution to the field of data-intensive computing, especially for his work on… Read More