US Health and Human Services ASPE selects Thomson Reuters to build tool that streamlines CER - October 15, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has been selected by the US Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) to develop a secure, interactive tool that will enable researchers to perform comparative effectiveness studies without the need for… Read More
UK exhibition to examine growth of research with new tools - October 15, 2010
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that researchers' interactions within a digital environment at the British Library are set to help it and similar organisations lead the future of research. The way that people interact with never-seen-before research tools, thought-provoking content and futuristic… Read More
Apollo Hospitals partners with The BMJ Group for mobile health applications - October 15, 2010
Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals has announced an agreement with medial publisher The BMJ Group to develop mobile health applications for patients and continuous medical education (CME) for doctors and other healthcare professionals. The BMJ Group is the media arm of the British Medical Association. The first… Read More
Metadata for three APA resources added to Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service - October 15, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and the American Psychological Association (APA) have announced an agreement to bring rich APA content into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, for three APA resources will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the… Read More
Harvard researchers retract stem cells research paper published in ‘Nature’ - October 15, 2010
Scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have retracted a paper published in the journal Nature in January 2010. This follows the lead author, Amy Wagers, obtaining information that 'undermined' her confidence in the data. Wagers is a researcher at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. The Nature paper,… Read More
Taylor & Francis and Semantico update The Europa World of Learning resource - October 15, 2010
Publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F), UK, and online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, have updated The Europa World of Learning. Up-to-date details of more than 200,000 staff and officials at over 30,000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums… Read More
