From the monthly archives: June 2010
A new editor has been appointed for JAMIA, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), which is published jointly with BMJ Group.
Lucila Ohno-Machada, professor and founding chief of the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the University of California at San Diego, will take up her post in January 2011 for a four [...]
Read More... →The American Journal of Public Health published by the American Public Health Association since 1911 reports an increased impact factor for 2009. The 2009 impact factor for AJPH is 4.371 up from 4.241 in 2008. The journal ranks #2 out of 95 titles in the Public, Environmental and Occupational Health category of the 2009 Thomson [...]
Read More... →Publishing Technology, the global provider of software and services to the publishing industry, and the largest player in the market, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Carden as Executive Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing. Mark will be responsible for Publishing Technology’s business development activities worldwide, leading the team that informs potential and [...]
Read More... →A new WorldCat record use policy, developed by a Record Use Policy Council and informed by community input, has been approved by the OCLC Board of Trustees. WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative will be effective August 1, 2010.
The new policy outlines the rights and responsibilities associated with stewardship of the WorldCat [...]
Read More... →Portico (www.portico.org/digital-preservation/) is pleased to announce that 110 publishers, representing more than 2,000 professional and scholarly societies, are now participating in the Portico archive. Furthermore, nearly 15 million articles are now safely preserved in the Portico archive.
“These are significant milestones for Portico and this substantial growth in a short period of time underscores [...]
Read More... →Programs at ALA 2010 Annual Conference to provide more information.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months. There are now more development projects underway than at any time in NISO’s history. Experts from interested and affected organizations have volunteered to participate [...]
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