Touch Group launches new clinical portal, touchnephrology.com - April 20, 2011
Medical and health sciences media and communications firm Touch Group PLC, UK, has reportedly launched a new clinical portal called touchnephrology.com. With content from review journals European Nephrology and US Nephrology, the portal will seek to serve as an open access resource for nephrologists and hospital… Read More
Thieme publishes student guide for Audiology Capstone research project - April 20, 2011
Medical publisher Thieme has reportedly published a guide titled The Audiology Capstone: Research, Presentation, and Publication. The publication is projected as a thorough, step-by-step guide that leads audiology students through their final research project, the Capstone. In four major sections, the textbook presents key information -… Read More
Thomson Reuters white paper offers publishers tips to optimise peer review systems - April 19, 2011
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the publication of a white paper tilted "Top 5 Best Practices for Advancing your Editorial Office". The paper outlines five ways in which scholarly publishers can advance their business by leveraging all that online peer review systems have… Read More
Google allows users to edit US map under Map Maker initiative - April 19, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly set to let users edit and make additions to the map of the US under its Map Maker initiative launched three years ago. Google Map Maker is said to be a parallel version of Google Maps that… Read More
JISC offers infoKit on best practices to be adopted by UK researchers - April 19, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has developed a research information management infoKit that is expected to benefit the nation's 30,000 researchers by offering guidance on preparing for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). It also offers examples of best practice in this area. The infokit… Read More
SAGE begins publication of journal ‘Alternatives’ - April 19, 2011
Publisher SAGE, US, has announced that it has begun to publish the journal Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Established in 1975, Alternatives seeks to promote a wide range of approaches to political, social, cultural and ecological developments, and to encourage more creative and imaginative ways of thinking… Read More
Pharmaceutical Press announces new edition of Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference - April 18, 2011
Pharmaceutical Press, the publishing arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, UK, has announced the publication of the 37th edition of Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference. Martindale is available in print, online via MedicinesComplete and for the first time, as a combined print and online package.… Read More
VMware unveils application platform for cloud computing environments - April 15, 2011
VMware, Inc., a US-based provider of virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, recently unveiled Cloud Foundry, claimed to be the industry's first open Platform as a Service (PaaS). Cloud Foundry is said to represent a new generation of application platforms, architected specifically for cloud computing environments and delivered… Read More
McGraw-Hill Higher Education announces expanded availability of custom publishing platform - April 15, 2011
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced the expanded availability of McGraw-Hill Create, an innovative platform that gives instructors unprecedented control over and customisation of university classroom content in English, Italian and Spanish - and by the end of 2011, Chinese and Marathi.… Read More
ICE Publishing launches new flagship journal collection – ICE Science - April 14, 2011
ICE Publishing, the publishing division of the Institution of Civil Engineers, has announced the launch of a new flagship journal series - ICE Science. By publishing at the intersection of many scientific disciplines this new series aims to inspire the cross-fertilisation of ideas and drive forward… Read More
