Elsevier / Gold Standard revamp Drug Class Overviews to address changing needs of healthcare professionals - August 23, 2012
Drug information provider Elsevier / Gold Standard, US, has announced its new Drug Class Overviews, making Clinical Pharmacology more valuable at the point of care. Clinical Pharmacology Drug Class Overviews are now even more powerful for evaluating formulary decisions and therapeutic drug substitutions. Elsevier / Gold… Read More
Maney Publishing set to publish official journal of Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing - August 23, 2012
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, will be collaborating with the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing (APSSLH) to launch the Speech, Language and Hearing journal in 2013. The journal is the official journal of APSSLH and is provided to each member… Read More
Amazon Web Services launches low cost, secure archive storage solution - August 22, 2012
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced the launch of Amazon Glacier, projected as a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage solution designed for data archiving and backup. Amazon Glacier is meant for data that is infrequently accessed, yet still important to… Read More
Science Exchange launches Reproducibility Initiative with PLOS, figshare - August 20, 2012
Science Exchange, in partnership with open access publisher PLOS and open data repository figshare, has announced the launch of the Reproducibility Initiative. The new programme aims to encourage independent replication of valuable research and thereby help scientists, institutions and funding agencies validate their critical research findings.… Read More
Elsevier launches new journal – Performance Enhancement & Health - August 17, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new international, peer-reviewed journal - Performance Enhancement & Health. The journal critically explores the health implications of performance enhancement on the human being, from steroid doping in elite athletes, right through to amphetamine use amongst truck… Read More
International Journal for Equity in Health calls for papers for special series in Multimorbidity and Equity in Health - August 17, 2012
The International Journal for Equity in Health, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, is currently accepting submissions on Multimorbidity and Equity in Health for inclusion in a special series on the topic. Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of health conditions in individuals and populations, is a… Read More
Research institutions worldwide sign up for Swets and Mendeley’s research productivity, collaboration and analytics tool - August 17, 2012
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, and Mendeley, a UK-based startup, have announced that leading research universities and institutions around the world have signed up for the research productivity, collaboration and analytics tool developed by the companies. Mendeley Institutional Edition, the new tool for libraries from… Read More
ACS Publications and CAS jointly launch Reference QuickView - August 16, 2012
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications, US, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the information divisions of the ACS, has jointly announced the introduction of Reference QuickView. Reference QuickView is a new feature powered by CAS' SciFinder that enables readers of web content to view directly the text… Read More
IEEE approves dozens of standards and standards-development activities - August 16, 2012
Professional association IEEE, US, has announced dozens of new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards-development projects. Among the new standards that have been published is IEEE 2200 – Standard Protocol for Stream Management in Media Client Devices. By defining interfaces for intelligently distributing and replicating… Read More
NPG invites submissions for Experimental & Molecular Medicine journal - August 15, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, is inviting submissions for Experimental & Molecular Medicine (EMM) following its publishing partnership with the Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (KSBMB). NPG will co-publish EMM on nature.com from January 2013. Submissions can now be made at
