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2 July 2015

Elsevier acquires clinical decision support technology provider, InferMed STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of InferMed, a clinical decision support (CDS) technology company. InferMed is headquartered in London and has employees in France, Australia and New Zealand. The acquisition is effective immediately and financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer Nature creates new global Policy & External Relations and Communications teams Springer Nature has created a new Policy & External Relations team as well as a combined Communications team to work in the recently-merged organisation. The two teams have global responsibility and will be led by Eric Merkel-Sobotta and Joyce Lorigan respectively. Both will report to Derk Haank, CEO of Springer Nature. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Brill joins International Publishers Copyright Protection Coalition in China Academic publisher Brill joins the International Publishers Copyright Protection Coalition in China to support efforts to create awareness about intellectual property rights and enter into dialogue with important stakeholders. Brill joined as the most recent 17th member and will be represented by Chinese speaking Legal Counsel, Mieke de Vries Robbé, and Liesbeth Kanis, Chief Representative and Business Development Manager Asia, based in Singapore. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The BMJ becomes first general medical journal to require data sharing for all submitted trials The BMJ, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, requires sharing of individual patient data for all clinical trials, effective July 1, 2015. This means that trials will be considered for publication only if the authors agree to make the relevant anonymised patient level data available on reasonable request. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme US leads the world in point-of-care diagnostics tests, says new report from CPA Global's Landon IP and Marks & Clerk shows A new research report from Landon IP, the patent analytics and consulting arm of intellectual property management specialist CPA Global, and intellectual property firm Marks & Clerk shows that the United States (US) leads the world in the number of patent first filings for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics tests. Such tests are a vital tool to help combat the global health threat of increasing antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Society for General Microbiology announce new Editors-in-Chief The Society for General Microbiology has announced two new Editors-in-Chief (EiC) that are joining the Society's growing stable of publications. Dr Tanya Parish will be the new EiC of Microbiology, while Professor Mark Harris will be the new Co-EiC of the Journal of General Virology. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Future Science Group launches interactive community for neurology experts, Neurology Central Publisher Future Science Group (FSG) has announced the launch of Neurology Central, a new online community for neurology professionals. The portal, which is free to registered users, features breaking news within the field of neurology, essential information about clinical trials and drug development, and access to peer-reviewed content from FSG neurology journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme American Energy Society and De Gruyter announce publishing partnership The American Energy Society and academic publisher De Gruyter have announced their partnership to produce the flagship publication for the American Energy Society. This partnership will serve to enhance the American Energy Society's mission to disseminate energy information and provide a forum for communication and cross-fertilization in all relevant, established and emerging disciplines, professions, fields, and types of energy. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ofer Mosseri joins Ex Libris as corporate vice president and head of the European operation Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Ofer Mosseri, a highly experienced high-tech manager, will be joining Ex Libris as corporate vice president and general manager of Ex Libris Europe, effective July 4, 2015. Ofer brings with him an impressive record from his years at NICE Systems, one of the best-known high-tech companies in its field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on July 3, 2015 on account of Independence Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, July 6, 2015. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the July 2nd issue. 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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