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Society for Scholarly Publishing awards twelve Fellowships for 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that 12 students and early-career professionals have been awarded highly competitive Fellowships for 2016. The Professional Development Committee received nearly 100 applications for these coveted positions. The Fellowship Program, an extension of the former Travel Grant Program, offers a wide range of career development and nurturing opportunities for students and early-career professionals in the scholarly communication industry.
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Elsevier announces further integration of Geofacets with Petrel E&P software platform and Studio E&P knowledge environment via Studio WorldMap
STM publisher Elsevier has announced a further integration of Geofacets with Petrel E&P software platform and Studio E&P knowledge environment via Studio WorldMap. Through the integration with Studio WorldMap, users of Petrel 2015 will immediately preview hundreds of thousands of geologically significant maps and articles sourced from Geofacets’ vast database without interrupting their workflow.
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The New England Journal of Medicine content now discoverable through ReadCube
ReadCube, an innovative software developer serving researchers, publishers, academic and commercial organisations, has announced its agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the world’s most trusted and influential source of medical knowledge and clinical best practices, to index its content across ReadCube’s platform as a part of the Discover service. Over 180,000 articles including original research, review, perspective, and commentary articles are now fully enhanced and deep-indexed for improved discoverability.
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ProQuest launches key regional databases
ProQuest has announced the launch of nine regional databases of locally published scholarly journals across all major disciplines. With over 3,000 academic titles across the nine databases, published by scholarly organisations and societies, educational institutions, and academic presses, each collection represents hundreds of the most authoritative scholarly publishing in that geographic area.
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GeoScienceWorld unveils new, fully integrated website
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) and HighWire Press, Inc. have announced the launch of GSW’s new, modern, and fully integrated website. GeoScienceWorld.org now provides a single source for affordable access to top quality Earth science content from leading society publishers including eJournals, eBooks and GeoRef.
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Second Editor’s Draft of EPUB 3.1 now available for review
The EPUB 3 Working Group has announced that the second Editor’s Draft of EPUB 3.1 is now available for community review. The previous Editors Draft, published in January, included some potentially controversial changes, in effect as ‘trial balloons’.
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OpenCon 2016 to be held in Washington DC on November 12-14
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Right to Research Coalition have announced that OpenCon 2016 will be returning to Washington, DC on November 12-14, 2016, where it will be hosted at the American University Washington College of Law. Applications to attend OpenCon 2016 in Washington, DC will open on June 6th. More information about the conference and to sign up for updates, interested parties may visit www.opencon2016.org/updates.
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Ulrich’s comprehensive, objective bibliographic information to improve resource discovery
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced the incorporation of Ulrich’sTM periodical data into the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution and SFX® link resolver. Ulrich’s, ProQuest’s leading source of authoritative bibliographic information, significantly enriches Primo discovery and SFX services.
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