De Gruyter Open and Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology announce publishing agreement - May 6, 2014
Open access publisher De Gruyter Open has become the publisher of the Forum of Clinical Oncology journal. The journal is the quarterly chief publication of the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology (HeSMO). The Forum of Clinical Oncology aims to provide an enhanced educational opportunity to… Read More
Sigma Xi selects The Charlesworth Group’s typesetting and composition services for its new OA journal for pre-collegiate engineers and scientists - May 6, 2014
The Charlesworth Group has announced that Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, has chosen The Charlesworth Group's typesetting and composition services for its new online open access journal for pre-collegiate engineers and scientists. Sigma Xi is launching a new digital journal titled Chronicle of The New… Read More
Wiley completes acquisition of CrossKnowledge - May 5, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that it has completed the acquisition of CrossKnowledge, a learning solutions provider focused on leadership and managerial skills development, for $175 million in cash. Privately-held with over 200 employees, CrossKnowledge offers subscription-based, digital learning solutions for multi-national… Read More
Mendeley to support Research4Life access in developing world - May 5, 2014
Mendeley, a global research collaboration and reference manager platform, has pledged to actively support and collaborate with Research4Life on the heels of its first anniversary at Elsevier. Research 4 Life is a public-private partnership that provides free and low-cost access to peer reviewed resources. Its… Read More
ProQuest acquires Pi2 Solutions - May 2, 2014
ProQuest has acquired UK-based Pi2 Solutions, an industry leader in product literature databases, workflow tools and related outsourcing services for global pharmaceutical companies. The company plans to align Pi2 with its ProQuest Dialog corporate information service to create an integrated solution for pharmacovigilance and expand ProQuest's… Read More
Jisc in deal with scientific journal publishers to provide free trial access to medical and scientific journals - May 2, 2014
Jisc has announced an agreement with scientific journal publishers. A year-long pilot will allow staff working across the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland free trial access to some of the most respected medical and scientific journals so they can read for themselves the… Read More
New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation selects UpToDate Anywhere for mobile-enabled clinical decision support - May 1, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, have announced that New York Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) has chosen UpToDate® Anywhere, its mobile-enabled clinical decision support resource. The five-year contract provides HHC clinicians with anytime/anywhere access… Read More
Academic institutions in Korea now have full-text access to ProQuest’s Periodicals Archive Online - May 1, 2014
Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a consortium with 300 members, has expanded its holdings of scholarly periodicals from ProQuest. Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers to a rich digital archive of leading historical periodicals, spanning more than two centuries of scholarship in the humanities and… Read More
Cambridge Journals set to publish Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s official publication - May 1, 2014
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press, have announced a new publishing partnership. Under the deal, Cambridge Journals will publish SHEA's flagship scientific publication, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), starting January 2015. Now in… Read More
STRIATUS/JBJS and Aries Systems announce development partnership to facilitate generation of PRE-score – a new metric to evaluate peer review quality - April 29, 2014
Peer review practices vary widely. Consequently readers and research funders lack a convenient and standardised way to assess the quality of peer review undertaken by scholarly journals. In response to this need, STRIATUS/JBJS, publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and its family of journals and educational offerings,… Read More
