CFP: Alternative and Complementary Therapies

Alternative and Complementary Therapies welcomes the submission of clinical, practical papers for healthcare providers involved in integrative medicine and CAM.  If you would like to submit a paper for consideration for publication, please contact Dawn Costa: dcosta@liebertpub.com

Details here:

http://www.liebertpub.com/manuscript/journal/3

CFP: Nursing Research

Current ongoing calls for papers at Nursing Research are available at this link:
http://journals.lww.com/nursingresearchonline/Pages/callforpapers.aspx

Editors are interested in manuscripts for Biology Reviews Series, Health Equity Research Series, and Point-of-Care Research Series.

Scholarly Kitchen: Why Is Science Suffering in the Modern Age?

Kent Anderson writing for the Scholarly Kitchen (“What’s Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing”) asks, “Why is science suffering in the modern age?” Among the causes of the crisis of public confidence in science:

1. Political and societal dysfunction.
2. Economic dysfunction.
3. Mass media dysfunction.
4. Scientific dysfunction.

Admitting the complexities of the first three, Anderson observes of the last: “Scientists need to become better communicators.”

The article is available on line: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/02/17/taking-our-eye-off-the-ball-why-is-science-suffering-in-the-modern-age/

CFP: Transformational and Sustainable Development

You are cordially invited to the Sixth Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference and First Colloquium on Chronic Illness Care to be organized by the Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 2-4 March 2016 in Hong Kong.

The conference will be one of our key events to celebrate the School’s 25th Anniversary in 2016. The theme of the conference is ‘Achieving transformational and sustainable development in health and social care’.
Online submission of abstracts will open on 2 January 2015. Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Jul 2015
Abstracts for oral/poster presentations relating to any of the following conference sub-themes are invited:
Ÿ   Contemporary health issues and emerging challenges
Ÿ Acute care nursing practice
Ÿ Cancer, palliative and end-of-life care
Ÿ Infectious disease management
Ÿ Health promotion and disease prevention
Ÿ Complementary and alternative medicine
Ÿ   Innovative practice
Ÿ Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare, and knowledge translation
Ÿ   Aged care, chronic illness care, and social care
Ÿ Innovative health and social care
Ÿ Chronic illness management and rehabilitative care
Ÿ Healthy ageing and aged care
Ÿ   Transformational leadership and reforms in healthcare system
Ÿ Healthcare policy and leadership
Ÿ Transcultural practice
We encourage you to present your work and engage in discussion and debate among international and local health and social care providers, policy makers, academics and researchers on strategies and initiatives to achieve transformational and sustainable development in health and social care in local and global contexts.
For more details, please visit our conference website (http://www.nur.cuhk.edu.hk/conference) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/panpacificconference?ref=aymt_homepage_panel).

Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers

Director of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communication at Duke University, Kevin Smith has published Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers. Published by the Association of College and Research Libraries and available in an open-access PDF version, the book provides scholars with a primer to intellectual property issues in the digital age:

http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838987483_copyright_OA.pdf