Ann Lawson to be Chair of ALPSP Professional Development Committee - March 2, 2010
The Association of Learned and Professional Publishers has announced that Ann Lawson, Senior Publisher Relations Executive (Europe), EBSCO, will Chair ALPSP’s Professional Development Committee. She succeeds Jane Moody who has had a successful tenure as Chair during which average attendance at ALPSP seminars increased by more… Read More
JISC names Kevin Ashley as director of Digital Curation Centre - March 2, 2010
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK, has announced the appointment of Kevin Ashley as the new director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), effective April 2010. He succeeds Chris Rusbridge who is retiring after six years as DCC’s director. Ashley is the former head of… Read More
Dear Subscriber - March 2, 2010
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Four European funders mandate submission to UK PubMed Central - March 1, 2010
Four European research funders have mandated that life sciences research outputs made possible with their funding be made freely available through open access repository UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). Launched in January 2007, UKPMC is a free-to-access digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences research.… Read More
NHGRI launches online Genomics Center for Nursing and physician assistant educators - March 1, 2010
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched an online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics. Dr. Jean Jenkins, NHGRI senior clinical advisor to the director, announced… Read More
La Fondation IPSEN, NPG host meeting on Emergence and Convergence - March 1, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the La Fondation IPSEN recently conducted the seventh meeting in the ‘Emergence and Convergence’ series in San Antonio, Texas. Experts discussed concepts from gene regulation studies in immune cells that have led to insights into the initiation and… Read More
