 STM Week 2014: One week, three events |
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The STM Association once again descends on London for its annual ‘STM Week’ events. Industry favourites Innovations and eProduction are joined this time by a new seminar focussing on OA: Beyond Open Access. Innovations: Social Media and Scholarly Publishing – exchanging, engaging and empowering will be held December 3, 2014. The eProduction seminar is scheduled for December 4, 2014. The new seminar focussing on OA, Beyond Open Access, will be held December 5, 2014. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier expands engineering content available on Knovel, adds ten more content providers |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the addition of ten content providers who will offer content via the Knovel platform, strengthening a range of disciplines including civil engineering, chemical engineering and earth sciences among others. The publishers recently added to the Knovel platform, include De Gruyter, J. Ross Publishing and eight other trusted content providers that collectively boost Knovel’s roster of content providers to more than 120 authoritative sources. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Nature Publishing Group and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation partner to launch new open access journal dedicated to Parkinson’s research |
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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) have announced a partnership to launch npj Parkinson’s Disease, an open access journal entirely dedicated to research which will help the scientific community to understand, mitigate, and eventually cure Parkinson’s disease. This is the latest launch in the series of Nature Partner Journals (npjs), a new series of online, open access journals published in collaboration with world-renowned international partners. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ÜberShare launches initiative for small funders – offers free access to Dimensions |
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ÜberResearch, a portfolio company of Digital Science, has launched the ÜberShare initiative to offer small funders free access to the enterprise level grant portfolio tool ‘Dimensions for Funders’. Dimensions covers $750 billion of historic and future spending on scientific research. Small funders with less than $1 million to invest in research are invited to register at www.Überresearch.com/ubershare. More Search for more news in this Category |
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SAGE set to publish OTJR: Occupation, Participation, and Health |
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Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it will begin publishing OTJR: Occupation, Participation, and Health, a leading occupational therapy journal of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation beginning in January 2015. Published quarterly, OTJR reflects the foundation’s mission to advance occupational therapy through sound scientific inquiry. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Karger Publishers offers free access to fundamental research article ‘Filoviridae: a taxonomic home for Marburg and Ebola viruses?’ |
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Biomedical publisher Karger Publishers is offering the fundamental paper ‘Filoviridae: a taxonomic home for Marburg and Ebola viruses?’ free to read on the homepage of its journal Intervirology as a token to assist researchers and medical professionals in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This research article was published in 1982 in Intervirology by Kiley et al. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Phillips Academy Andover selects EBSCO Discovery Service |
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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the Phillips Academy Andover, an independent, coeducational boarding high school that enrolls more than 1,100 students, has opted for EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) to provide students with a more streamlined search that can be customised to their needs. The mobile capabilities of EDS were an important factor for the Academy. According to Michael Blake, Associate Library Director, the ability to conduct research on mobile devices was high on their priority list. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Gale offers content for data mining and textual analysis purposes |
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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has announced that it will make available content from its Gale Digital Collections to academic researchers for data mining and textual analysis purposes. Data mining and textual analysis – the process by which text or datasets are crawled by software that recognises entities, relationships and action – helps researchers draw new conclusions among disparate data and is emerging as an important area of scholarly research. More Search for more news in this Category |
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