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31 August 2015

Wolters Kluwer's Clinical Drug Information solutions used in 25 out of the 27 top-scoring hospitals in the US The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that its Clinical Drug Information solutions are used in 25 out of the 27 top-scoring hospitals achieving Honor Roll status in U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals and Best Children's Hospitals 2015-2016 rankings. Additionally, its Lexicomp drug references are used by 19 of the 20 top-ranked pediatric hospitals for neonatology from the U.S. News & World Report 2015-2016 Best Children's Hospitals list. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Center for Open Science's Reproducibility Project finds several studies not replicable A four-year study published in Science Magazine on August 27, 2015, found that fewer than half of 100 published findings of three prominent psychology journals were reproducible. The 270 researchers who collaborated on the Reproducibility Project: Psychology coordinated by the Center for Open Science (COS) - one of ARL's three partners in SHARE - were able to replicate the findings of only 39 of the 100 original studies. Reproducibility is necessary for scientific evidence to be credible. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cochrane appoints Karla Soares Weiser as Deputy Editor in Chief Cochrane, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health, has announced the appointment of Karla Soares Weiser as Deputy Editor in Chief. This newly created post will combine leadership roles within the Cochrane Editorial Unit (CEU) and Cochrane Innovations, helping to ensure that the CEU can deliver on its targets and projects, and supporting Charlotte Pestridge, the CEO of Cochrane Innovations, by leading the editorial development of new business products and services for Cochrane. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Library of Medicine releases new web page - Nursing Resources for Standards and Interoperability The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a new web page - Nursing Resources for Standards and Interoperability. The web page is a resource for nurses, students, informaticians and anyone interested in nursing terminologies for systems development. It describes the role of SNOMED CT and Laboratory Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) in implementing Meaningful Use in the United States, specifically for the nursing and care domain. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme K-12 parents welcome digital learning as a performance-improving and more cost-effective learning experience for their children, says McGraw-Hill survey McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has released the results of a survey, according to which, parents of K-12 and college-age students overwhelmingly support digital learning as a means to enhance the classroom learning experience for their children. When asked about digital learning, a resounding 91 percent of K-12 parents said they welcomed the introduction of a more personalised digital experience as an alternative to traditional textbooks. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Students using Cengage Learning's digital course solutions in Calculus to gain access to live Chegg Tutors anytime Chegg, Inc. (CHGG), the Student Hub, and Cengage Learning, a global education company, have announced a partnership to integrate Chegg Tutors directly into Cengage Learning's leading calculus materials. Students using Cengage Learning's digital course solutions in calculus will now have direct access to live, online tutors who can offer assistance in the precise content currently being studied. 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: Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie (RLUK Collective Collection in Context—the OCLC Research Perspective); David Crotty (Is it True that Most Open Access Journals Do Not Charge an APC? Sort of. It Depends.); Phill Jones (More Confusion: Do We All Agree on What Constitutes Authorship?); Samuel Moore (Stop shielding early-career researchers from open access – limiting wider involvement won't change a broken system); and Alice Meadows (Reasons to be Cheerful: Some Thoughts on the SHARE Summer 2015 Meeting). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   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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