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Elsevier announces publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials and four additional veterinary science and zoology books
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials by John E. Cooper and Gordon Hull. It consists of two cross-referenced parts. The first, the book itself, is a review of pathological changes and tissue responses in gorillas. What makes the publication unique is the second part, a comprehensive descriptive catalogue of the location and nature of gorilla material in museums and scientific institutions throughout the world, greatly benefiting research and study.
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New OCLC Research report on digitization in public and state libraries
The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that OCLC Research has published a new report: Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries. This report summarises the results of a needs assessment and gap analysis of digitisation activities by public libraries and state library agencies in the US.
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Education publishers sue Amazon marketplace vendors over counterfeit sales
Education publishers Pearson Education, Cengage Learning and McGraw Hill have summoned Amazon to disclose the names and financial accounts of online vendors allegedly selling low-cost pirated copies of the publishers’ books via the Amazon marketplace site. According to a report in the Financial Times, the publishers are suing 100 unnamed Amazon marketplace sellers for copyright infringement, accusing the sellers of ‘hiding behind the anonymity of internet pseudonyms’.
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CARL releases Roadmap towards sustainable scholarly communication
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a Scholarly Communications Roadmap that presents clear activities it aims to undertake to stimulate positive change towards an open, sustainable, effective and innovative scholarly communication system. The full text of the document is available in Englishand in French.
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Call for Proposals for PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference now open
The Public Knowledge Project has issued a Call for Proposals for the PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference to be held in Montreal, Quebec from August 2- 4, 2017. The conference will address issues of community voice, ownership, and control as it relates to open access publishing, global knowledge creation and sharing, open educational resources, citizen rights, scholars as publishers, and open source technologies.
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Wound Care Education Institute and the Journal of Wound Care announce joint venture to publish new digital journal – Wound Central
Wound Care Education Institute® (WCEI) and the Journal of Wound Care (JWC) have entered into a joint venture to publish a new digital journal called Wound CentralTM. The journal offers a unique combination of advanced wound care education as well as practical bedside how-to basics. It provides original research and case reports, written and double blind peer reviewed by leading authorities in the wound care industry.
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NRF hosts first African DSpace-CRIS Repository Workshop
The National Research Foundation (NRF) hosted a successful DSpace-CRIS workshop at its National Facility the iThemba Labs, in Cape Town from December 4-5, 2016. It was attended by 38 participants including IT administrators, librarians and repository practitioners, drawn from various universities and research councils.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Holly Else (How likely are academics to confess to errors in research?); Perry Hewitt (Guest Post: Perry Hewitt – Bringing the Cathedral to the Bazaar: Academic Content and Wikipedia); Ann Rogerson (Free Internet based paraphrasing tools: further threats to academic integrity); Valeria Arza and Emanuel López (Embedding open science practices within evaluation systems can promote research that meets societal needs in developing countries); Cat Williams (Altmetrics for books: a guide for editors). 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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