Picis selects Clinical Architecture’s Symedical to support new medication decision support capabilities - June 7, 2010
Healthcare consulting and software solutions company Clinical Architecture, US, has announced that Picis, a global provider of innovative information solutions for acute care settings, has selected its Symedical interoperability solution. Symedical enables clinical applications to share patient information as actionable discrete data. Picis chose to integrate… Read More
Bowker unveils enhanced versions of library resources - June 7, 2010
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, a business unit of ProQuest, has announced enhancements to its suite of library resources. These include Books In Print, Syndetics Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues.… Read More
OSA’s new journal to focus on novel optical materials - June 7, 2010
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced the launch of a new journal on optical materials. The journal, Optical Materials Express (OME), will launch in spring 2011. David Hagan, associate dean for academic programs and professor of optics and physics at CREOL, The College of Optics &… Read More
Digital Media executive Vivek Shah and Great Hill Partners acquire Ziff Davis - June 7, 2010
Technology publisher Ziff Davis, US, has announced that it has been acquired by former Time Inc. executive Vivek Shah in partnership with Boston-based Great Hill Partners. Specific financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition represents the first step in building a new digital… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 7, 2010
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Making Lending and Vending Work for Publishers, Librarians, and Users); Wim Weber (The future of scientific publishing); Ashley Norrison (Why publishers should forget about iPad apps (for now)); and Philip Davis (In Search of Sustainability: Business Models in… Read More
CLIR report examines transition of research libraries from print to digital collections - June 4, 2010
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), US, has announced the release of a new volume that examines challenges associated with the transition of research collections from an analogue to a digital environment for knowledge access, preservation and reconstitution. The volume, The Idea of Order:… Read More
