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NewsBytes formation service gives users access to Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics
DNDi Offers Disease
(continued from page 4) 76,000 books and millions of journal ar- and Philosophy is targeted at high
ticles. In addition to the websites, Ques- school students and the undergraduate Prevention Challenge
tia recently launched applications for market and contains more than 300
Gale Announces Questia Facebook and the iPhone, allowing users peer-reviewed articles and 200 photos The Drugs for Neglected Diseases ini-
Acquisition, Award Wins to access the database on-the-go and in
community settings.
and illustrations on global warming,
animal rights, industrial ecology, and
tiative (DNDi) issued a $10,000 challenge
to fight certain infectious diseases, a
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, ac- In other news, two Gale titles, Ency- other topics. The second work, Ency- project hosted jointly by Nature.com and
quired the assets of Questia Media, Inc., clopedia of Environmental Ethics and clopedia of Modern China, analyzes the InnoCentive.com and launched at the
creator of Questia.com and Questia- Philosophy and Encyclopedia of Modern history and culture of China dating Open Innovation Pavilion. DNDi’s targets
School.com and provider of information China, garnered Outstanding Reference from 1800. are African sleeping sickness, visceral
and educational resources to students. Source awards from the ALA’s Reference Source: Gale, a part of Cengage Learn- leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis,
Questia’s subscription-based online in- and User Services Association (RUSA). ing (www.gale.com) and Chagas disease. These four diseases,
all of which are caused by parasites and
transmitted by insects, affect the lives of
30 million people in more than 88 coun-
tries in Southeast Asia, South America,
and sub-Saharan Africa. The challenge
requires a written proposal to be submit-
ted by April 16.
Source: Nature Publishing Group (www
.nature.com)
SHEDL Gets Access
to Edinburgh Journals
Edinburgh University Press (EUP)
and the Scottish Higher Education Dig-
ital Library (SHEDL) reached an agree-
ment by which all 19 SHEDL institutions
across Scotland will have access to all of
EUP’s journals.
SHEDL was formed in 2009 to level the