 Digital Publishing Interest Group publishes Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report |
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The Digital Publishing Interest Group has published a Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report. The Metadata Task Force of the DPUB IG found, through extensive interviews with representatives of various sectors and roles within the publishing ecosystem, that there are numerous pain points for publishers with regard to metadata but that these pain points are largely not due to deficiencies in the Open Web Platform. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Allen Press’ annual Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar titled Life in the Fast Lane scheduled for April 16 |
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Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc. will present its annual Emerging Trends in Scholarly PublishingTM Seminar titled Life in the Fast Lane on April 16, 2015, at the Embassy Suites DC Convention Center. Leaders in the field of scholarly and electronic publishing will share their expertise, experience, and analysis on a variety of topics ranging from access to research, developments in digital publishing, collaboration, and sustainability of scholarly publishing. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Hearst Health announces venture investment in health optimization pioneer Welltok |
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Hearst Health, a unit of Hearst Corporation, announced a venture investment in Welltok, Inc., creator of the CaféWell platform, which allows insurers, hospitals and other health managers to work with consumers to help them achieve better health. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Cengage Learning and LearnLaunch partnership to accelerate technology start-ups |
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Education company Cengage Learning and LearnLaunch, an organization dedicated to expanding Boston’s edtech ecosystem, have announced a partnership to boost the Boston edtech community. Recognising Boston as a center for both excellent education and technology innovation, Cengage Learning has made a commitment to participate in LearnLaunch’s Accelerator program, which identifies edtech start-ups and provides them with mentoring opportunities to help them grow. More Search for more news in this Category |
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WVU receives $1 million grant to develop scholarly publishing platform |
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The West Virginia University has been awarded $1 million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program to develop a new academic publishing platform for mixed-media and print-based scholarship materials. Dubbed Cairn, this editorial-management system will be a modular publishing platform for print-like and scholarly multimedia journals, books and data sets. More Search for more news in this Category |
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WriteLaTeX relaunches under new name of Overleaf in 2015 |
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WriteLaTeX, a provider of tools for writing scholarly papers in an online collaborative academic world, is relaunching in 2015 under the new name of Overleaf as part of a major upgrade to the service. The move is part of their efforts to make the power of LaTeX more accessible to more people. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
| The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Alice Meadows (Peer Review — Recognition Wanted!); Lorraine Estelle (Unravelling the true cost of publishing in open access); Gary Collins (The TRIPOD Statement: enabling the transparent reporting of prediction model studies); Kent Anderson (Is Google Now a Publisher Offering Other Publishers an Inadequate Deal?); and Danny Crichton (In war with publishers, tech companies take wrong approach). 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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