Knowledgespeak Newsletter

28 May 2012

Elsevier Australia launches new medical app - Clinical Herbs STM publisher Elsevier Australia recently launched Clinical Herbs - a new medical app for local students and practitioners alike. Offering an alternative to bulky textbooks, the Clinical Herbs app delivers a comprehensive herbal database directly to the user's iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health's UpToDate featured in current issue of the Global Public Health journal Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that UpToDate, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, was featured in the current issue of the Global Public Health journal. The article, Health care workers in Africa access a broad range of topics using evidence-based online medical information, investigates the relationship between access to evidence-based, online clinical resources and improvements in patient care in RLS. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ACM unites with Mathematical societies to bring young researchers together with winners of highest scientific awards ACM, which presents the A.M. Turing Award each year, the highest honor in computing and computer science, will join with the societies that confer two prestigious awards in mathematics to enable these laureates to interact with young researchers from around the world. The meeting, to be known as the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, is modeled after the annual meetings of Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IPG, Amazon reach agreement on sale of e-book titles Amazon and IPG have reached an agreement three months after Amazon pulled e-book titles off its site from IPG clients over a dispute on terms. To give a boost to its publishers, IPG will not take a fee on Kindle sales for three months from June. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Tools to assess research impact at the article level gaining ground The impact of academic research has long been measured using citations. However, the Impact Factor is a journal level - not an article level - metric. As academic publishing moves increasingly onto the web, opportunities to track and assess the impact of individual scientific publications have emerged. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Pearson set to acquire GlobalEnglish Corporation for $90 million Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has announced the acquisition of GlobalEnglish from its current ownership group for $90 million in cash. Founded in 1997 in California, GlobalEnglish is a provider of cloud-based, on-demand Business English learning, assessment and performance support software. The transaction is subject to approval by GlobalEnglish's shareholders. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central presents OA Advocate of the Year award to University Librarian of KNUST Open access publisher BioMed Central presented the Open Access Advocate of the Year award at the recent 6th Annual Research Awards ceremony held at Emirates Stadium, UK. Dr Helena Asamoah-Hassan, University Librarian of the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and a Fellow of the Ghana Library Association was only the second individual winner of this award. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Intellectual Access - It Takes More Than Accessibility); James Hartley (Titles are the hardest thing: How can we make them more effective?); Alok Jha (Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?); InTechWeb (To know the importance of providing free access to taxpayer-funded research); and Martin Gardiner (Academic Inbreeding Alert). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

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