Knowledgespeak Newsletter

18 February 2013

ICA selects Health Language to support new addition to its health information exchange platform Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that ICA has selected Health Language to support its health information exchange (HIE) platform. Health Language medical terminology management software and services will enable ICA to create longitudinal patient records and enhance reporting and analytics across entire populations. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier Foundation, others give awards for women scientists in developing countries Five medical and life science researchers from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean Basin received the 2013 Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World. The recognition was for work contributing to life-saving knowledge and therapies worldwide. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SRU approved as OASIS Standard The Search and Retrieve via URL (SRU) 2.0 has been approved as a standard by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). SRU is the web-based successor to Z39.50. OASIS is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest seeks applications for 2013 Roger K. Summit Scholarship Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest is seeking applicants for its 2013 Roger K. Summit Scholarship. Celebrating its 20th anniversary and open to applicants from around the world, the US$5,000 award is given annually to a promising graduate student in library and information sciences. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 'Genome Medicine' invites papers for special issue on single cell analysis Genome Medicine will publish a special issue on the topic of single cell analysis later this year. The editors are now accepting manuscripts employing single cell techniques in the study of human health and disease, as well as methodological, technological and informatics developments in this field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Higher education institutions in Brazil and Saudi Arabia gain access to Gale's National Geographic Virtual Library Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has announced the signing of license agreements that will enable higher education institutions throughout Brazil and Saudi Arabia to access Gale's National Geographic Virtual Library. The national agreements in Brazil and Saudi Arabia were funded respectively by the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), and by the Saudi Digital Library. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Aviation Week announces new appointments, expands editorial team Aviation Week, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, has announced that veteran aviation journalists Tony Osborne and Cathy Buyck are the latest members of the international team of editors at Aviation Week, while Frankfurt-based Jens Flottau has been promoted to lead the Commercial Aviation team. Osborne joins as the new London Bureau Chief, and Buyck will serve as contributing editor from a newly opened bureau in Brussels. 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 (Validation vs. Filtration and Designation - Are We Mismarketing the Core Strengths of Peer Review?); Curt Rice (Science research: three problems that point to a communications crisis); David Crotty (Licensing Controversy - Balancing Author Rights with Societal Good); Liz Allen (The research impact agenda must translate measurement into learning) and Mike Shatzkin (Some ideas for publishers that will help bookstores; other suggestions that make us skeptical). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. 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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