BMJ Group and OUBS launch accredited online courses in Clinical Leadership - February 8, 2010
BMJ Learning, the medical education division of The BMJ Group, UK, and The Open University Business School’s (OUBS) Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD) have launched postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Leadership for healthcare professionals. The new courses have been developed following the recommendations of Lord… Read More
Elsevier announces competition for chemistry research students - February 8, 2010
Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced the launch of the Reaxys PhD Prize for young chemists. The competition is for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the past… Read More
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews bags three awards at the PROSE Awards - February 8, 2010
STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced that its Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs), the new publications launched in 2009, have picked up three of the most prestigious awards in scholarly publishing at the annual PROSE awards. The American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence… Read More
CrossRef exceeds 40 million metadata records for scholarly content - February 8, 2010
Reference linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced that it has surpassed 40 million metadata records for scholarly content. Each of these records includes a CrossRef Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the content to be accessed by a permanent link on the Internet. Of these… Read More
Bowker acquires BML from Publishing News - February 8, 2010
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced the acquisition of BML (Book Marketing) from Publishing News Ltd. With this acquisition, Bowker seeks to expand its ability to provide business intelligence to the global publishing market. BML is a provider of market research on the UK book… Read More
New Subject Section for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical - February 8, 2010
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that the Classical and Quantum Field Theory section in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical will change to Field Theory and String Theory. The new section will be under the leadership of Arkady… Read More
