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Global publishers select Scope’s ConSCIse solution to enhance book discovery, develop abstracts and keywords for book chapters
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that more than fifteen major book publishers have now developed enriched chapter level metadata by leveraging Scope’s ConSCIse solution. The need for enhanced book chapter metadata was reinforced in a white paper from PCG, an Ingenta Company, noting that book publishers are increasingly adopting the journal publishing model for displaying search results for book content by delivering enhanced metadata for the book chapter along with journal articles.
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Leading US copyright experts to debate ‘Fair Use’ at Charles Clark Memorial Lecture
Delegates at The London Book Fair will in 2017 hear two eminent copyright law specialists debate one of the most controversial areas of international copyright law – the doctrine of Fair Use. Judge Pierre Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has been a major architect of the Fair Use doctrine in the United States, most recently as the author of the Google Books decisions. Intellectual property lawyer and former General Counsel for the US Copyright Office Jon Baumgarten has litigated precedent setting Fair Use cases and advocates a more narrow interpretation of the doctrine as applied in those cases.
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Wiley Education Services expands partnership with Mattersight Corporation improving student experiences and learning outcomes through data
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced that Wiley Education Services, a division of Wiley that provides solutions and services for online, hybrid, and, on-ground learning to higher education institutions, is expanding its partnership with Mattersight Corporation, the pioneer in personality-based software applications. As the only partnership of its kind in the higher education industry, Wiley Education Services will expand its use of Mattersight’s revolutionary Behavioural Analytics technology solution within its overall suite of business analytics to improving student experiences and learning outcomes through data.
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IET launches inaugural issue of new OA journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published the first issue of its latest open access journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. The new journal covers emerging issues including security, privacy issues and data analytics techniques in addition to classical cyber-physical systems (CPS) research topics such as control, real-time computing and system validation.
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Initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group now open for public comments
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced the publication of the initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public comment. In April 2016, COAR launched a working group to help identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop a road map for their adoption. For the past several months, the group has been working to define a vision for repositories and sketch out the priority user stories and scenarios that will help guide the development of new functionalities.
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Purdue University continues partnership with Overleaf after successful year-long pilot
Scientific writing and publishing tools provider Overleaf has announced that Purdue University will continue in a five year partnership after a successful year-long pilot. During the pilot, premium Overleaf accounts and customized writing templates were provided to all students, faculty and staff. Purdue University Graduate School were looking for a way to overcome LaTeX intimidation and accessibility hurdles faced by their students.
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Kudos announces integration with Editorial Manager
Kudos, the service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, and Aries Systems, have announced a partnership through which plain language summaries will be captured at the point of submission within Editorial Manager. Editorial Manager has created a helpful video guide for publishers wanting to set up the integration.
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