Serv

Serv or SERV may refer to:

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VDM Publishing

VDM Publishing or Omniscriptum Publishing Group is a German publishing group based in Saarbrücken, Germany, with offices in Argentina,Latvia, Mauritius and Moldova. Its book production is based on print on demand technology.

VDM publishing's imprints—Alphascript, Betascript, Fastbook Publishing and Doyen Verlag—specialize in publishing and selling Wikipedia articles in printed form via print on demand, in e-commerce bookstores. Alphascript distributes publications through several on-line book retailers. At least some of the books are printed by Amazon.com. As of November 2010, around 150,000 such titles have been produced. In June 2010, VDM started its own online-bookshop: MoreBooks! Publishing.

VDM's publishing methods have received criticism for the soliciting of manuscripts from thousands of individuals, for providing non-notable authors with the appearance of a peer-reviewed publishing history, for benefiting from the free contributions of online volunteers, and for insufficiently disclosing the free nature of their content. VDM responds that it is a valuable, quality resource, that the company has no problem asking authors for content, that buyers are informed of where information comes from, that books are a convenient form to collect articles about interesting subjects, and that its customers are satisfied with VDM's products. VDM Publishing is designated as non-scientific by the Norwegian Scientific Index.

SERV (charity)

Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers, or SERV, is a Blood Bikes charity based in England, whose volunteers provide a motorcycle courier service, free of charge to the National Health Service. SERV was established in 1981.

The charity's volunteers work outside normal office hours and use either their own or the charity's dedicated response motorcycles to transport items such as blood for transfusion, blood samples for pathological or microbiological analysis, drugs, patient notes, x-rays, scans, medical equipment, samples, vaccines and donated human breast milk.

SERV is one of a number of charities which provide a service across the UK. It is a founder member of the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes (NABB), and works closely with other NABB members such as Freewheelers EVS (Bristol), Severn Freewheelers when transport over longer distances is required.

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