National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences names Darryl C. Zeldin as scientific director - October 3, 2011
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced that physician-scientist Dr. Darryl C. Zeldin will become the Institute's new scientific director. Effective October 23, Zeldin will lead and manage a $114 million biomedical research programme focused… Read More
EMpact and Eduserv announce sales representation agreement - October 3, 2011
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO, has entered into a global (excluding Israel) agreement with Eduserv to provide sales representation for their OpenAthens product. OpenAthens is an identity and single sign-on product that controls users' access to online resources with a single username… Read More
Latest issue of RLI features the future of the University, collecting small data and misleading copyright claims - October 3, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 276 of Research Library Issues (RLI). This issue of RLI features a speech on the future of the research university presented by McGill University Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum at the May 2011 ARL Membership Meeting. … Read More
Bloomberg acquires BNA - October 3, 2011
Business news and financial information provider Bloomberg, US, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc (BNA). BNA is now a stand-alone wholly-owned subsidiary of Bloomberg. The acquisition was overwhelmingly accepted by the BNA owner/employees, who tendered about 95… Read More
Maney Publishing re-launches two key health science titles - October 3, 2011
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced the re-launch of two key titles. From 2012, Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology will become Pathogens and Global Health and Annals of Tropical Paediatrics will re-launch as Paediatrics and International Child Health. Pathogens and Global Health will continue… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 3, 2011
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Eliza Anyangwe (Will publishers respond positively to open access policies?); Anna Baddeley (Ebooks: our literary future, and past); Phil Davis (The Journal Usage Factor — Think Locally, Act Locally); Christopher Mims (Will E-Books Destroy the Democratizing Effects of Reading?); and… Read More
