Knowledgespeak Newsletter

31 January 2013

Google and Scientific American launch second annual Scientific American Science in Action award Internet search services provider Google and science magazine Scientific American has announced the launch of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action award, powered by the Google Science Fair. The Scientific American Science in Action award honours a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Three nursing textbooks published by LWW receive American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year award The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) has awarded its prestigious AJN Book of the Year award to three nursing textbooks published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The LWW publications were honoured in the categories of information technology and informatics, critical care emergency nursing, and community public health. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New titles to be added to British Academy Publications Online Academic publisher Oxford University Press and the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences have announced that the British Academy Publications Online (BAPO) will be updated with 28 new titles on January 31, 2013. British Academy Publications Online is an online collection of academic monographs and essay collections from the distinguished British Academy list. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Sara Lloyd to Chair 2013 LBF Digital Minds Conference The London Book Fair, in association with the Publishers Association, has announced that Sara Lloyd, Director of Digital and Communications at Pan Macmillan, will chair the fifth Digital Minds Conference scheduled for April 14, 2013, at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster. The conference will build on the success of previous years, appealing to a global demographic with delegates and speakers coming from across the publishing industry and the media more widely. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme WALDO selects Books at JSTOR programme for demand-driven acquisition model JSTOR and WALDO have announced an agreement that enables WALDO member libraries to participate in the Books at JSTOR through both outright book purchases as well as a demand-driven acquisition programme. Books at JSTOR, which launched in November, features more than 15,000 books from 30 publishers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Accelrys' electronic laboratory notebooks recognised in Gartner's enterprise category Accelrys, Inc., a US-based provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, has announced that Gartner, Inc. has rated the company's electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) as 'very high' or 'high' in each scientific and functional domain in a recent report on considerations for selecting an ELN. Accelrys was the only vendor with ELNs that achieved those ratings in all categories. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme JISC-funded research creates toolkit for greener teaching and learning in HE sector An Open University study funded by the JISC has found that teaching models in higher education institutions are not green enough. The project culminated in the design of the SusTEACH toolkit - an online resource offering tools for lecturers, academic designers and students to make institutions 'greener'. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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Knowledgespeak Newsletter

30 January 2013

Elsevier launches new journal - Anthropocene STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new journal, Anthropocene. As a quarterly journal Anthropocene will publish research focusing on the effect of human activity on landscapes, oceans, the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems. The journal will be edited by Professor Anne Chin of the University of Colorado, who will be supported by a distinguished team of Associate Editors and an Editorial Board. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BMJ Group set to publish military medical title, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps Medical publisher the BMJ Group has announced that it will take over production and publication of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (JRAMC) from March 2013. First issue of the journal under the new partnership is due in March. Lt Col Jeff Garner, a consultant colorectal surgeon at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, is the editor of the journal. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme JISC funds facilitates open access to 6,500 digitised museum objects The JISC has funded a project to make 6,500 newly digitised objects from University College London and the University of Reading's diverse museum collections openly accessible to students, teachers and the public. The digital artefacts encompass a range of disciplines from sciences to the arts. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Scripps Health selects ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Scripps Health has selected its ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, software as its electronic order set solution. ProVation Order Sets is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RSC and India's CSIR partner to advance cheminformatics for novel therapies The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in India to raise awareness of the importance of cheminformatics - or eScience - in accelerating the discovery of novel therapies for neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria. The RSC will work in partnership with India's CSIR on an Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative for the next three years. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 'Alzheimer's Research & Therapy' invites papers for series on peripheral biomarkers Alzheimer's Research & Therapy has announced that it is now accepting research submissions for consideration in a special series on peripheral biomarkers, planned for publication in summer 2013. The publication of these articles will be coordinated with a series of commissioned reviews and opinions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RSuite CMS to sponsor 2012 PROSE Awards at AAP 2013 PSP Annual Conference RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, is an official sponsor of the 2012 PROSE Awards, which will take place at the AAP 2013 Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Annual Conference in Washington, DC from February 6 to 8. Jeff Wood, vice president, business development, RSI Content Solutions will be in attendance. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RCN Publishing adopts DataSalon's MasterVision service RCN Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, has announced that they have adopted DataSalon's MasterVision service in order to gain a better understanding of their customer base and to further develop their business. MasterVision gives RCN Publishing a complete 'single customer view' of all their customers and contacts, incorporating subscribers, authors, members, alert and forum sign-ups, event attendees and advertisers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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