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PHILADELPHIA, September 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Powered by Elsevier's Smart Content, individual subscriptions of ClinicalKey offer targeted answers quickly, without slowing physician workflow Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the availability of a new version of ClinicalKey [https://www.clinicalkey.com ] designed for individual...
MOSCOW, September 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Scopus recognized by Russian Ministry of Education and Science as key database for reaching international standards of excellence in education and science Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces that Scopus is officially confirmed as one of the primary requirements for the research assessment of all Russian...
A hands-on project to educate high schoolers about appropriate antibiotic use was highly effective, promoting more sophisticated understandings of bacteria and antibiotics and increasing understanding of the dangers of antibiotic resistance, and was even enjoyable, as reported Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE. 42 Portuguese high school students participated in the program, which involved wet lab activities like culturing bacteria from various sources, including keyboards, cell...
A medical school committee is weighing whether to hire a promising young neuroscientist. Will she have a brilliant future as a researcher, publish in top journals and nab abundant research funds? If only there were a crystal ball. Wait, now there is! A new Northwestern Medicine study published Sept. 13 in Nature offers the first formula that accurately predicts a young scientist's success up to 10 years into the future and could be useful for hiring and funding decisions. Currently,...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health. The recommendations were developed by leaders of the Open Access movement, which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly...
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, has partnered with The MIT Press, an award-winning publisher affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to offer access to a special selection of computing and engineering eBooks as part of the IEEE Xplore® digital library. The new titles will be available via a new collection delivered in IEEE Xplore called The MIT Press eBooks Library - Computing...
AMSTERDAM, September 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, now offers its entire collection of books and journals on its online platform ScienceDirect, as well as access to its abstracts and citation database Scopus to innovators in 105 countries for free or little cost through the ARDI [http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en ] (Access to...
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Oxford University Press is continuing to expand their innovative digital publishing program this September with the launch of the new, ground breaking resource Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) and the re-launch of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks Online and Oxford Reference. Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) is an important new initiative that will bring the famous and world-renowned collection of Oxford scholarly...
AMSTERDAM, September 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A series of online training materials and interactive tools at http://www.ethics.elsevier.com provides information on ethical boundaries and how to avoid violations including research fraud, plagiarism, and duplicate submissions. Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the...
NEW YORK, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr George "Rusty" Gray II to further nurture Acta's three leading journals in the material sciences: Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia Acta Materialia Inc [http://www.actamaterialia.org ]. is pleased to announce that Dr George "Rusty" Gray II has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Acta Materialia Inc. effective immediately. He succeeds Dr William F. Scott who passed away June 25,...
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Nature Photonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2007 and published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group. As with other Nature journals, this periodical has no external Editorial Board with editorial decisions made by a fully-functioning in-house team. The journal covers research related to optoelectronics, laser science, imaging, communications, and other aspects of photonics. It publishes review articles, research papers, news and commentary, and research...
Nature Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1995 and published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. As with other Nature journals, this periodical has no external Editorial Board, with editorial decisions being made by an in-house team. Nature Medicine publishes research articles, reviews, news and commentary pieces. Topics include cancer, cardiovascular disease, gene therapy, immunology, vaccines, and neuroscience. Research...
Epilepsy Currents is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published bimonthly in collaboration with Allen Press since 2011. Prior to that time, the journal was published on behalf of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal was established by AES in 2001. The journal publishes commentary articles and brief topical reviews. Commentary articles are solicited from members of the board of contributing editors. Content is available free-of-charge on the...
Earth, Moon, and Planets is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1969 and published about ten times per year by Springer Science+Business Media. This publication was originally titled The Moon until 1978, when it was renamed The Moon and the Planets; Its current title was changed in 1984. The current co-editors (as of September 2012) of the journal are Giovanni B. Valsecchi (IAS-CNR, Italy) and Murthy S. Gudipati (Caltech and JPL). This journal focuses mainly on research about...
The Journal of Applied Polymer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley. As of July 2012, the editor-in-chief is Stefano Tonzani, PhD (University of Colorado, Boulder). The journal covers all applications of synthetic and renewably sourced polymers, including batteries and fuel cells, organic electronics, biomedical implants and drug delivery, coatings and packaging. It also covers composites, blends, elastomers, films and membranes, fibers, emulsions and latices,...
