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Elsevier unveils eight alternative and renewable energy books at ASME Power & Energy Conference & Exhibition
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Storing Energy: With Special Reference to Renewable Energy Sources by Trevor Letcher, a comprehensive volume covering the various types of renewable energy storage for engineers and scientists. This up-to-date book on energy storage developments, along with seven additional new alternative and renewable energy titles, will be featured in Elsevier’s booth # 307 at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME Power & Energy Conference & Exhibition, June 26-30, in Charlotte, NC.
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ProQuest partners with major publishers to allow customers via its OASIS system to order ebooks from even more ebook platforms
ProQuest is teaming with major publishers in the academic book market to empower customers via its OASIS system with the ability to order ebooks from even more ebook platforms. In the coming months, ebook platforms from such scholarly book publishers as Oxford University Press and IGI Global will be accessible from OASIS.
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Routledge and the Research Council on Mathematics Learning announce publishing partnership
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML) have announced a new publishing partnership. Beginning with the 2017 Volume, Taylor & Francis will publish and distribute RCML’s highly regarded journal, Investigations in Mathematics Learning, under the Routledge imprint.
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CHORUS adds public access flag to search results
Finding publicly accessible content just got a little easier with the addition of a new functionality to the CHORUSsearch beta results to indicate whether or not an article is publicly accessible, or when it will be made available if known. Every article in the CHORUS member database is checked and confirmed through an internal audit process. Content is marked as PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE only when the full text is freely available.
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New community-based open source environment to provoke conversation about library innovation and technology
Libraries and service providers have come together to reshape the future of libraries and develop new technologies. The new initiative, FOLIO, provides a platform for libraries, service providers, and other organisations to team up to redefine library automation via open source projects. The goal is to cultivate interest groups, form partnerships and spark conversations that will lead to the creation of new services and technologies for libraries.
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Ex Libris continues to improve library productivity with mobile app – Alma Mobile
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that its Alma library management service now enables librarians to access Alma from anywhere, using a mobile device. It is expected that the Alma Mobile will significantly improve libraries’ operational efficiency. Librarians can now access task lists and perform fulfillment activities on the go, even scanning item barcodes to register in-house use from anywhere in the library.
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Frontline becomes only medical publisher to complete database audit of 810,000 HCPs
Frontline Medical Communications (FMC), a leader in digital, print and live events, recently completed an audit of its database, the only medical publisher to have an audit of this type. BPA Worldwide, an independent, third-party, using widely accepted auditing procedures, conducted an examination and verification of the Frontline Healthcare Practitioner database.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Rethinking Authentication, Revamping the Business); Joseph Esposito (Libraries May Have Gotten the Privacy Thing All Wrong); Hrynaszkiewicz (Progress on pragmatic sharing of clinical data); Julia Himmrich (How should academics interact with policy makers? Lessons on building a long-term advocacy strategy.); and Charlie Rapple (Hootsuite for academia? How to increase the visibility, downloads and impact of publications using Kudos). 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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