Wolters Kluwer to Acquire Emmi – Extending Wolters Kluwer Clinical Solutions into fast-growing patient engagement market
Wolters Kluwer Health announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Emmi Solutions (Emmi), one of the leading U.S. providers of patient engagement solutions, for $170 million in cash.
Founded in 2002, Emmi is a leading provider of comprehensive and interactive patient engagement solutions supporting healthcare providers and insurance carriers in delivering effective healthcare. Patient engagement solutions encourage patients to more actively participate in their healthcare, thereby improving outcomes and potentially reducing healthcare costs. Emmi’s offerings are a natural extension to our existing Clinica...
Source: News from STM - October 6, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Overleaf Partners with American Geophysical Union to Simplify Submission Process for Multiple Journals
Overleaf, an innovative provider of scientific writing and publishing tools, today announced a partnership with the American Geophysical Union (AGU),a nonprofit, professional organization for Earth and space scientists representing more than 60,000 members.
AGU publishes 20 peer-reviewed scientific journals covering research in the Earth and space sciences. Authors of the Geophysical Research Letters, the Journal of Geophysical Research (JPR): Space Physics, and JGR: Atmospheres are now able to write and collaborate using a template that allows them to select the specific journal in which they would like to submit. The f...
Source: News from STM - October 5, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Acquisition of Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Science Business by Onex and Baring Asia completed
The previously announced sale of the Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business to Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia was completed today. The company’s many well‐known brands include Web of Science™, Cortellis™, Thomson Innovation™, Derwent World Patents Index™, Thomson CompuMark™, MarkMonitor®, Thomson IP Manager™and Techstreet™, among others.
The newly independent company will be known as Clarivate Analytics, a name that speaks to accelerating the pace of innovation with the trusted insights and analytics it provides to customers. Clarivate Analytics enables ...
Source: News from STM - October 5, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Qatar University Library Strengthens Functionality of its Institutional Repository Through Elsevier ’s ScienceDirect APIs
Qatar University Library and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced their collaboration to maximize visibility, impact and dissemination of articles published by QU faculty and researchers.
Through Elsevier’s ScienceDirect APIs, QUL’s institutional repository (QSpace) now receives an automated feed of metadata, abstracts and embargo end date information for all articles published in Elsevier journals by QatarUniversity authors.
In addition, QSpace is the first institutional repository to use DSpace plug-ins which have been devel...
Source: News from STM - October 5, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
ProQuest ® Early English Books Online Will Enhance Research in Japan
ProQuest® Early English Books Online (EEBO) has been chosen by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources consortium (JUSTICE) as a joint consortium product for academics and researchers across the country.
EEBO is the definitive online collection of early printed works in English and those printed in England from 1473 to 1700. Used by scholars and students in more than 1,000 institutions worldwide, the collection offers inter-disciplinary support in areas including literature, languages, music, history, philosophy, religion, travel and exploration.
“En...
Source: News from STM - October 5, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
ALPSP and The PA to host debate on Brexit and academic publishing at Frankfurt Book Fair
ALPSP and The PA are to host a debate on the impact of Brexit on academic publishing at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Thursday 20 October 2016, 10:30 to 11:00 am, Publishing Perspectives Stage, Hall 6.0, Frankfurt Book Fair.
Audrey McCulloch, CEO of ALPSP will introduce a panel including Richard Mollet of The RELX Group who will chair a conversation with Andy Robinson from Wiley and Richard Fisher, academic and policy correspondent
They will consider what Brexit means for research funding in the UK as well as the broader implications for publishers and learned societies in the UK, Europe and globally. Full details...
Source: News from STM - October 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
McGraw-Hill Education Acquires Redbird Advanced Learning, A Digital Personalized Learning Provider for K-12
Acquisition further strengthens McGraw-Hill Education’s position as a leader in adaptive learning and broadens its digital curriculum offerings in K-12
McGraw-Hill Education today announced the acquisition of Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC, a leading digital personalized learning company that offers courses in K-12 math, language arts and writing and virtual professional development programs for educators. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Built on 25 years of research at Stanford University, Redbird’s adaptive learning solutions enable students to have a highly personalized educational experi...
Source: News from STM - October 3, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
Springer Nature appoints Tim Britton as Managing Director of Open Research Group
Tim Britton, formerly of PwC, r2i and YouGov, joins Springer Nature today as Managing Director of the Open Research Group.
Britton, who has decades of experience working in the marketing and research information industries, will be responsible for the open research portfolio across Springer Nature, including BioMed Central, SpringerOpen, the open access journals from Nature Research and open access monographs from Springer and Palgrave Macmillan. He will also join the Springer Nature Research Management Board.
Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer at Springer Nature says: “As well as being an experienced and intern...
Source: News from STM - October 3, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Open Access Source Type: news
Scope e-Knowledge Center to exhibit at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, is pleased to announce its participation at the forthcoming Frankfurt Book Fair from October 19 – 23, 2016. Scope will welcome attendees to Booth # L88, Hall 4.2. Scope will also make a presentation at the “Hot Spot” session on ‘Improving Discovery of Book Content’ in Hall 4.2 on October 20th at 5 pm.
This year, Scope will feature its state of the art proprietary platforms/solutions for enhancing data and content. These include:
diSCOver™: diSCOver employs Scope’s proven &...
Source: News from STM - September 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
HighWire and Glencoe Software Partner to Deliver In-Line Video for Journal Publishers
Glencoe Software, Inc. is pleased to announce that HighWire Press Inc., the leading technology platform and strategic partner to scholarly publishers and societies, has named Glencoe’s Data InPress Video Injection Service (http://glencoesoftware.com/data-inpress.html) as a preferred partner for delivery of video content for its partner publishers. For any journal on HighWire’s JCore platform, videos can automatically be inserted into published text and viewed on any computer, phone, or tablet.
You can view an example here: http://jcb.rupress.org/content/211/5/945.
Video data are integral to scientifi...
Source: News from STM - September 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Digital Featured Source Type: news
OpenAthens renews three-year contract to deliver access management to NHS workers in England
OpenAthens today announced it has renewed its contract with NICE on behalf of the NHS in England, providing access to essential content for hundreds of thousands of front-line medical workers and researchers across the country.
The arrangement, spanning a further three years for the period May 2017 to April 2020, covers the provision of access management to a wide variety of online resources, research, and databases purchased nationally, regionally, and locally for the NHS in England through dedicated accounts that are available to all health and social care staff providing NHS-commissioned care.
Alexia Tonnel, Director of...
Source: News from STM - September 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
PLOS Genetics Announces 2016 Research Prize Winner
The PLOS Genetics Editors-in-Chief and Senior Editors congratulate Santiago Naranjo, Justin D. Smith, Carlo G. Artieri, Mian Zhang, Yiqi Zhou, Michael E. Palmer and Hunter B. Fraser, authors of the article chosen as the recipient of the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016, Dissecting the Genetic Basis of a Complex cis-Regulatory Adaptation.
In the winning article, Naranjo and colleagues set out to identify the molecular basis of polygenic adaptation. To achieve this goal, they used a clever approach in testing for evidence of selection on gene expression (via a sign-test), specifically looking for sets of genes showing allel...
Source: News from STM - September 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Open Access Source Type: news
Elsevier Launches Brexit Resource Centre
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of technical and medical information products and services, has today launched a Brexit Resource Centre (www.elsevier.com/connect/brexit-resource-centre). The site provides free access to comprehensive research data, metrics and other online resources to help researchers, institutions, funders and government decision makers within and outside of the UK to monitor effects of the referendum on the UK’s research base, and support decision-making based on this data.
Dr. Nick Fowler, Managing Director Research Networks at Elsevier, said, “As the UK transitions out of the EU, it’s impor...
Source: News from STM - September 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: European Featured Source Type: news
New Wales-wide library management system will foster greater collaboration
A new library management system which will promote collaboration between cross-sector libraries in Wales was celebrated at an event in the National Assembly.
The new bilingual library management system will deliver cost benefits, greater collaboration, and the potential to share collections throughout Wales.
It will be shared by Welsh university libraries, NHS libraries, and the National Library of Wales. Bangor and Glyndwr Universities recently completed the roll-out of the system, finalising the implementation schedule across Wales.
A library management system is the technology which enables university and other librarie...
Source: News from STM - September 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured Libraries Source Type: news
Elsevier Announces Winners of the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize
Three Young Chemistry Researchers are Recognized for Their Innovative and Original Research
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the three winners of the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize at its annual Symposium held in conjunction with the New Scientist Live festival in London.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160926/411703 )
Celebrating top research by leading young chemists across the globe, the Reaxys PhD Prize recognizes innovative and original research in chemistry, with an emphasis on synthesis. Since its inception seven years ago, the Re...
Source: News from STM - September 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: STM Publishing News Tags: Featured World Source Type: news
