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Industry Veteran Punit Dhandhania joins Scope e-Knowledge Center as Strategic Advisor
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced the appointment of Punit Dhandhania as strategic advisor. Punit Dhandhania is a business leader with over 25 years of experience working for global publishers. Pioneering the outsourcing of high quality services to publishers in India, Punit has worked with publishers such as Oxford University Press, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Cambridge University Press, Lexis-Nexis, Hachette, Larousse and many others.
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Dr. Barbara A. Zehnbauer appointed new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
The editorial direction of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (JMD) is transferring to the stewardship of respected molecular pathologist Dr. Barbara A. Zehnbauer, beginning January 1, 2015. Dr. Zehnbauer serves the public at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, where she is Chief of the Laboratory Research and Evaluation Branch in the Division of Laboratory Programs, Standards, and Services.
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SAGE to publish The Journal of Intensive Care from February 2015
Academic publisher SAGE and The Intensive Care Society have announced a new agreement to publish its flagship title, The Journal of the Intensive Care Society as of February 2015. The journal, edited by Dr Jonathan Handy, is the official journal of the UK Intensive Care Society. The first SAGE issue will publish in February 2015.
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University of California Press enters open access space, announces plans to roll out two open access products
University of California Press is entering into the Open Access space with the launch of two new products – a mega journal focused on three core disciplines (life and biomedical sciences, ecology and environmental science, and social and behavioral sciences) and a monograph program designed to take advantage of rich, digital formats. Rollout for both products is planned for 2015.
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Thieme expands open access publishing program, unveils Ultrasound International Open journal
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced the latest addition to their open access publishing program, Ultrasound International Open (UIO). Edited by an international group of ultrasound experts, this open access journal covers the field of interdisciplinary ultrasound in medicine and biology and will publish four times a year starting in 2015.
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Bookbuilders of Boston name winners of first New England Publishing Collaboration Awards
Bookbuilders of Boston recently named the winners of the first New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards. From a pool of ten finalists, NEPCo judges October Ivins (Ivins eContent Solutions), Eduardo Moura (Jones & Bartlett Learning), Alen Yen (iFactory), and Judith Rosen of Publishers Weekly selected Inera, Inc., collaborating with CrossRef, for the first place.
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HighWire Press names Louise Page as VP President Business Development and Publisher Relations
HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers, has announced that it is consolidating the business development and publisher relations teams into a comprehensive publisher services organisation led by Louise Page. Under Louise’s leadership, the new market‐facing team will draw on HighWire’s core strengths, enabling them to innovate with greater speed and organizational efficiency in the constantly evolving field of digital publishing.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Old and Stale? – Aging Researchers, Funding Trends, and the Doughnut Effect); Joe Wikert (The marketing tool every publisher undervalues); Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (Data Descriptors: Providing the necessary information to make data open, discoverable and reusable); Phil Davis (PeerJ Grows Steadily With Papers, Authors); and Bryony Graham (The theory and the practice: what open access publishing means to an early career researcher). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.
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