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Elsevier signs on to CCC’s Republication Service
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has announced that STM publisher Elsevier has signed on to CCC’s Republication Service to simplify the process of negotiating broad republication permissions for its Science & Technology and Health books and journals. With the addition of Elsevier, CCC now offers republication rights on more than one million works.
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New whitepaper offers recommendations to improve usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries
A group of professionals from libraries, content providers and OCLC have published ‘Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access,’ a white paper that identifies data quality issues in the content supply chain and offers practical recommendations for improved usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries. The white paper offers solutions for the efficient exchange of high-quality data among libraries, data suppliers and service providers.
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IOS Press selects Semantico to design new journals and book platform
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd. has been selected by IOS Press, an independent, international STM publishing house, to design and deliver a new publishing platform to support their growing collection of STM books and journals. IOS Press publishes more than 100 international journals and approximately 75 book titles each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences.
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Dental Science & Surgery journals celebrate Open Access Week
Open Access publisher OMICS Group Incorporation invites researchers, authors, medical practitioners, academicians, and students across the globe to participate in the ‘Open Access Week’ by actively contributing their research outcome as articles to OMICS Group Dental and Surgery Journals from October 20-26, 2014. Oral and Dental Hygiene group journals focus specially on the core and specialised areas of dentistry which deal with periodontology, endodontic, dental surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, dental disease and cure, operative dentistry, and prosthodontics.
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PCG appoints Erika Valenti as Global Sales Director
Sales, marketing and research consultancy Publishers Communication Group (PCG) has announced that it has hired Erika Valenti as its new Global Sales Director, effective October 1. Based in the Boston office, Erika will lead the PCG’s Content Sales team of dedicated publisher representatives in the US and regional sales offices in the UK, Brazil and India.
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Ingram Content Group Inc. adds new tools to its CoreSource digital asset management platform
Ingram Content Group Inc. has added new tools to its CoreSource® digital asset management platform offered through Lightning Source Inc., that give publishers the ability to manage and distribute print book metadata and files worldwide. Publishers that use the CoreSource platform for e-book distribution can now distribute print metadata to retailers, library suppliers and book discovery partners.
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The Yankalilla Library marks final SAPLN member to go live on SirsiDynix Symphony
SirsiDynix has announced that the final member of the South Australian Public Library Network (SAPLN) is prepared to go live with SirsiDynix Symphony. Yankalilla will mark the 77th SAPLN site to go live since the consortium’s Symphony implementation began in 2012. With a complete Symphony integration— and with some sites running on two databases or through multiple branches—SAPLN will include circulation materials from 80 databases, 159 sites, and over four million items.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (When a Journal Sinks, Should the Editors Go Down with the Ship?); Phil Ciciora (Academic journals should adopt nonprofit publishing model, expert says); Wayne Bivens-Tatum (The Mess of Ebooks | Peer to Peer Review); Michael Clarke (Peak Subscription); and David Budtz Pedersen (Overhyped and concentrated investments in research funding are leading to unsustainable science bubbles). 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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