Pearson releases latest version of student information management tool, Chancery SMS - April 7, 2010
Education and education technology services provider Pearson, US, has announced the release of version 7.3 of Chancery SMS, its student information management tool. The latest release is stated to include various features, including a new Academic Planner tool to help counselors track students’ progress toward graduation.… Read More
Knovel redesigns user interface for AIChE members - April 7, 2010
Knovel, a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced a re-designed user interface for members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). AIChE members now have the ability to save and organise frequent searches, titles and content. Engineers who join… Read More
CPM Resource Center launches web-based Clinical Practice Guidelines - April 6, 2010
The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare, has launched its first web-based version of Point of Care Guidelines (http://www.cpmrc.com/). The online edition of its guidelines seeks to support new and emerging… Read More
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collections: Series 2 now available via EBSCOhost - April 5, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has released the second of five series from American Antiquarian Society (AAS) with American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2. The series is part of a collection that provides digital access to a comprehensive collection of American periodicals… Read More
Ecological Society of America offers search facility in database of experts - April 5, 2010
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has unveiled its updated resource for policymakers and members of the media. The Rapid Response Team (RRT) database, an ESA resource for several years, has now been made fully searchable. Users can find ecological scientists who specialise in a variety… Read More
UpToDate adds Allergy, Asthma and Immunology content to clinical information database - April 2, 2010
UpToDate, part of healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced the addition of Allergy and Immunology to its clinical information database. Subscribers to UpToDate can now access over 300 topics specifically devoted to allergy, asthma and immunology, and a total of over 8,300 topics… Read More
RSC supplies practical science teaching software free to all state secondary school in the UK - April 2, 2010
The Royal Society of Chemistry is supplying free computer memory sticks, on request, to every state secondary school in the UK. The computer memory sticks will comprise a radical new virtual teaching tool to eradicate fear of performing laboratory experiments. The new e-learning tool, Chemistry LabSkills,… Read More
Elsevier adds FDA Advisory Committee content to online resource Pharmapendium - April 1, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the addition of FDA Advisory Committee content to Pharmapendium, an online resource for preclinical, clinical and post-market drug information. The newly added documents seek to provide preclinical and clinical drug development and regulatory affairs departments with a substantial collection of… Read More
New quantitative ranking system in Elsevier’s MTM 360 to enhance medication therapy management efforts - March 31, 2010
Medical information and solutions provider Elsevier Clinical Decision Support, US, has announced that it has developed a quantitative ranking system that enables health plans to better control their medication therapy management (MTM) programmes for Medicare Part D members. The Intervention Priority Score (IPS) is a new… Read More
Thieme Publishing Group launches Version 3.9 of Science of Synthesis resource - March 31, 2010
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the launch of Science of Synthesis Version 3.9, an online resource that provides highly evaluated chemical information from leading experts in the field. This critical treatment of synthetic chemistry claims to be one of the most authoritative, in-depth… Read More