American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium marks decade of measure development - April 6, 2010
The American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. The AMA-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) is committed to enhancing quality of care and patient safety by taking the lead in the development, testing, and maintenance of evidence-based clinical performance… Read More
Pearson’s CourseConnect selected as 2010 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist - April 6, 2010
Education, technology and services provider Pearson, US, has announced that its CourseConnect solution has been selected as a finalist in the 2010 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards. CourseConnect is a library of customisable online courses with recommended course descriptions, syllabi, lessons containing rich… Read More
The US’ Department of Justice to support The Associated Press’ proposed digital news registry - April 5, 2010
The US’ Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced its support for a proposal by The Associated Press (AP) to develop and operate a voluntary news registry to facilitate the licencing and Internet distribution of news content created by the AP, its members, and other news originators.… Read More
Serials Solutions receives full permissions as CONSER Affiliate member - April 2, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, a business unit of ProQuest Information and Learning, has announced that its catalogers can ‘CONSER authenticate’ non-CONSER records for distribution as new records. Now a CONSER Affiliate member of the Library of Congress’ Serial Record Division… Read More
A*STAR ranked 7th in Asia-Pacific for research publications - April 2, 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has been ranked seventh most prolific agency in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the total number of research papers published in Nature Publishing Group’s portfolio of Nature-branded journals in 2009, according to the Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index.… Read More
Nominations now open for Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science – Canada - April 1, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has called for nominations for the 2010 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science. The 2010 awards focus on Canada. Two prizes of C$10,000 will be awarded - one for mid-career and one for lifetime achievement. Nominations close on June 30, 2010.… Read More
2010 EBSCO/ALA Conference Sponsorship award winners announced - March 30, 2010
The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have announced the winners of the 2010 EBSCO/ALA Conference Sponsorship awards. The seven awards, each in the amount of $1,000, are presented annually to professional librarians who are members of the ALA, enabling them to attend… Read More
CPMRC Healthcare Consortium receives NAP Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award - March 25, 2010
The Healthcare Consortium of the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company, is the 2010 recipient of the National Academies Practice (NAP) Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award. The NAP award is presented annually to groups that make ‘enduring contributions to interdisciplinary education and practice’. The… Read More
OITP recognises three library programmes for best use of cutting-edge technologies - March 25, 2010
The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) of the American Library Association (ALA) has recognised three libraries for best use of cutting-edge technologies in library services. The libraries are: Contra Costa County Library in Pleasant Hill, California; North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh, North Carolina.;… Read More
Ex Libris announces expansion of Primo community with new members - March 17, 2010
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that additional libraries from around the world have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution as a unified gateway to their library collections. These libraries will join the international Primo community and will benefit from the Primo… Read More
