‘Journal of Agricultural Science’ launches new series on climate change - August 3, 2010
Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, has announced that The Journal of Agricultural Science has launched a special topic on 'Climate Change and Agriculture'. According to the journal, if agriculture is to continue the successes of the previous five decades in… Read More
IEEE announces new features for IEEE Xplore Digital Library - August 2, 2010
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US, a technical professional association for the advancement of technology, has launched several new enhancements to the IEEE Xplore digital library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). The latest updates to IEEE Xplore include support for Athens and Shibboleth… Read More
New interactive toolkit for healthcare professionals launched - August 2, 2010
The Medicines Management, Keele University, has developed a new online resource designed to assist healthcare professionals in the local development of shared care agreements. The Effective Shared Care Agreement Toolkit seeks to outline clinical and patient management responsibilities and suggest how they can be shared between… Read More
Elsevier and PANGAEA announce next step in connecting research articles to data - July 30, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - have announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are… Read More
DynaMed Drug Topics to provide medication cost assistance program information from NeedyMeds - July 30, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that a new service within its DynaMed point-of-care clinical reference will link clinicians to cost assistance programmes designed to help patients afford their medications. DynaMed drug topics now include links to NeedyMeds, a non-profit organisation that… Read More
Maney Publishing and BSBI announce new publishing arrangement to relaunch Watsonia as the New Journal of Botany - July 30, 2010
Academic Publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced a new publishing arrangement with the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) to relaunch its journal Watsonia - Journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles as the New Journal of Botany, in 2011. New Journal of… Read More
ISMPP and MPIP launch new medical publishing website - July 30, 2010
The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) and the Medical Publishing Insights and Practices (MPIP) initiative have launched a new web page highlighting various MPIP initiatives (http://www.mpip-initiative.org). The web page is projected as a valuable resource providing information on the overall… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry announces start of new global conference series - July 29, 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that well-known scientists in the chemical sciences field appeared at the RSC's three conferences in three continents for the launch of the new flagship journal, Chemical Science. These conferences were held over three successive weeks in July. Commencing… Read More
AMA and MGMA develop new online toolkit to assist in PMS software selection - July 29, 2010
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) have developed a new online toolkit to assist physicians in selecting the most appropriate software to run their practices. Free to members of the AMA and the MGMA, the 'Selecting a Practice Management System'… Read More
WebWorks releases first enterprise content conversion tool supporting the Apple iPad and ePUB standard - July 29, 2010
Enterprise digital content conversion and publishing software company WebWorks, US, has released an enterprise level content conversion tool with built-in support for the Apple iPad and ePUB standard. WebWorks' ePublisher 2010 Mobile Plus release is the first enterprise solution to support the emerging ePUB standard to… Read More
