medicine

BioData has announced that the Innovative Medicines unit of the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, has adopted the Labguru platform for the global management of biological reagents used in pre-clinical research

Springer has taken control of the journal Autoimmunity Highlights, which was previously owned by A. Menarini Diagnostics, an Italian company

Nature Publishing Group is joining forces with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to publish NPJ Breast Cancer, an open access research journal which will help us to understand, prevent, treat and cure the disease

IOP Publishing has launched Convergent Science Physical Oncology, said to be the first and only interdisciplinary title dedicated to bringing together all researchers in the field of the physics of cancer

BioMed Central has announced plans to publish the new innovative journal Research Involvement and Engagement, which aims to publish its first articles in June 2015

This week has seen the launch of NPJ Parkinson's Disease, an open access journal entirely dedicated to research aimed at helping the scientific community to understand, mitigate, and eventually cure Parkinson's disease

BioMed Central and the University of Michigan are to publish a new open access journal, Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is now open for submissions and will begin publishing in the first quarter of 2015

Springer is collaborating with the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine to publish a new open access journal, Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics

Elsevier has added five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect. The Legacy Collection consists of digitised, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books

SAGE acquires OA neurochemistry journal