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Elsevier launches two game-based learning challenges – Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge and Engineering Academic Challenge

Elsevier, the information analytics company specialising in science and health, has announced the launch of two game-based learning challenges, the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge (CSC) and the Engineering Academic Challenge (EAC). The challenges are designed to help students tackle contemporary, real-world problems by embracing a transdisciplinary approach to finding solutions.
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New Public Data Lab to support advances in social science research and digital methods

Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has entered into a partnership with the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, to establish a new Public Data Lab in order to facilitate social science research, teaching and public engagement activities around the future of the data society. The lab will mobilise an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and organisations in order to develop and disseminate innovative research, teaching, design and participation formats for the creation and use of public data.
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Taylor and Francis announces new trial with Publons allowing peer review to get the recognition it deserves

Academic publisher Taylor and Francis has announced a new trial with Publons, enabling peer review contributions to be instantly tracked, verified and showcased to allow peer review to get the recognition it deserves. Publons is now being rolled out across 30 journals within Taylor & Francis Biological, Earth and Environmental Science and Behavioural Science.
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Copyright Clearance Center appoints Samantha Burridge to its Board of Directors

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a global content management, copyright licensing, discovery and document delivery solutions provider, has announced the appointment of Samantha Burridge to the company’s board of directors. Burridge brings more than 20 years of broad publishing and open access experience to the CCC board.
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UC Santa Barbara selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo solutions

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution to manage and expose the library’s increasingly diverse collections and to deliver a streamlined user experience. The adoption of Primo by UCSB will offer local researchers considerable added value through unified access to both print resources and online licensed content through a sophisticated discovery system.
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ACCUCOMS to represent the American Association for Cancer Research in Latin America

ACCUCOMS has announced a new agreement with the American Association for Cancer Research in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America (except Brazil). The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) claims to be the oldest and largest scientific organisation in the world focusing on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research.
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Elsevier sign IT professorship deal to support Berlin’s digital agenda

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and information analytics company Elsevier have signed an agreement to launch an information management professorship at the university as part of the Einstein Center Digital Future. This builds on Humboldt’s existing collaboration with Elsevier in the HEADT Centre and supports Berlin’s position as a technology hub and a place for top researchers and academic excellence.
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Clarivate Analytics announces expansion of Emerging Sources Citation Index

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced the expansion of its Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) from 5,000 journal titles to over 7,500 as well as the release of a 10-year archive for this index later this year. The index expansion will increase the breadth of research within the Web of Science to 35,000 journals and offer access to an unparalleled collection of its kind.
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Author sharing via scholarly collaboration networks is widespread, despite strong support for copyright, says new survey

Kudos, the service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced headline results from a recent survey of authors’ current sharing behaviours, carried out in partnership with 10 publishers. The survey shows that usage of scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs, such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu), for uploading articles is widespread, and that accessing full text content is the primary reason, ahead of finding and connecting with other researchers.
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Wiley names Guido F. Herrmann as Publishing Leader for Germany

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the appointment of Guido F. Herrmann as publishing leader for Germany. In his role at Wiley, Dr. Herrmann will be responsible for business operations in Germany and lead a substantial portion of Wiley’s global journal portfolio, with primary responsibility for titles that follow the high-impact in-house editorial model.
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Wolters Kluwer releases eight new online courses supporting the Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification in Joint Replacement

Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, have announced the release of eight new online courses designed to help organisations with the requirements of The Joint Commission’s (TJC) new Advanced Certification for Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement. Co-developed with Joint Commission Resources (JCR), TJC’s publishing and education affiliate, these new courses complement other topics in the Lippincott Professional Development Collection developed collaboratively with JCR, including heart failure, stroke, compliance, and patient safety.
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Zoologia joins Pensoft’s portfolio of open access peer-reviewed journals

Academic publisher Pensoft and the Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia (Brazilian Society of Zoology) have announced a new partnership. Under the deal, Zoologia, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in South America, will join Pensoft’s portfolio of open access peer-reviewed journals. The journal will now feature a new look and feel, with more intuitive navigation, ensuring that the user experience for all authors, readers and editors remains as immaculate as possible at all times.
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CJK Group, Inc. acquires The Sheridan Group

CJK Group, the holding company for Bang Printing, a leading manufacturer of books, catalogues, publications and fulfillment services, has acquired The Sheridan Group headquartered in Hunt Valley, MD, including its operating divisions in Chelsea, MI, Hanover, PA, Waterbury, VT, and Hanover, NH. The Sheridan Group is a provider of print, publishing services and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and cataloguers.
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European Commission mulls over setting up publishing platform for scientists it funds

The European Commission, which spends over €10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, and set up a publishing platform for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe. According to a commission spokesperson, the two charities, which opted for a system in which papers are reviewed after publication, are ‘models,’ but that the commission is only considering the idea.
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Cambridge University Press and AJE launch new language editing service for authors

Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced the launch of a new author services website for 2017, in partnership with author services company American Journal Experts (AJE). The site will offer language editing for prospective authors who are writing in English as a second language. Authors will be able to purchase services and submit their manuscripts for editing within the site.
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Brill joins Jisc Digital Archival Collections group purchasing pilot in the UK

Academic publisher Brill has joined a UK pilot project organised by Jisc, the Digital Archival Collections group purchasing pilot, aimed at lowering the costs of purchasing digital archival collections for UK university libraries and increasing access to important resources of primary source material. Jisc, a non-profit organization, provides digital services and solutions for higher education in the UK.
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BMJ reaches global healthcare via Figure 1 app

Medical knowledge provider BMJ is bringing their latest research directly to healthcare professionals via the Figure 1 app. With more than one million doctors, nurses, and medical students on the network, BMJ researchers are using Figure 1 to discuss their work with their target audience immediately after its publication.
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New OCLC Research report explores the Realities of Research Data Management

A new OCLC Research report, ‘A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space,’ provides an overview of the RDM service space and sets the stage for further exploration of RDM at four universities around the world. This report is the first in a four-part series, The Realities of Research Data Management, which focuses on decision-making at four institutions that have made different choices in confronting the realities of planning, developing and deploying institutional RDM services in research universities.
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Endocrine Society partners with Medscape to bring endocrine expertise to clinicians worldwide

The Endocrine Society and Medscape have announced a new partnership that brings together the Society’s expertise and Medscape’s innovative, peer-to-peer digital platforms and award-winning content to provide clinicians with the latest guidance and most relevant insights on diagnosing and treating diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, infertility, and other endocrine disorders. Through the partnership, Endocrine Society experts will work with Medscape editors to produce original features that bring the most timely and useful guidance to endocrinologists, primary care physicians, and all others who care for patients affected by endocrine disorders.
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InTechOpen added to OAPEN List of book publishers complying with Open Access requirements of funders

The Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Library has introduced a new list of book publishers that comply with Open Access requirements for books resulting from research that was funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Wellcome Trust and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). InTechOpen is one of the first publishers to be added to the list, and has the largest Open Access book offering.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (The Tincture of Time – Should Journals Return to Slower Publishing Practices?); Rebecca Pool (Exposing peer review); Tom Culley (Are you the right reviewer? 5 questions to ask yourself); Andrew J. Hoffman (In Praise of ‘B’ Journals); Maha Bali (Find Open Access Articles Faster with UnPayWall); and Andy Tattersall (Following the success of the learning technologist, is it time for a research equivalent?). 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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Latest Publications: UC Davis/UC Davis Medical Center

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Your search alert called “UCD/UCDMC” has found 53 new results on Scopus. |  View all new results in Scopus
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Document Author(s) Date Source Title
1 . Scaling equations for the accurate prediction of CMOS device performance from 180 nm to 7 nm Stillmaker, A., Baas, B. 2017 Integration, the VLSI Journal ,
58 pp. 74 – 81 .
2 . Demonstration of reusing electric vehicle battery for solar energy storage and demand side management Tong, S., Fung, T., Klein, M.P., Weisbach, D.A., Park, J.W. 2017 Journal of Energy Storage ,
11 pp. 200 – 210 .
3 . Subducting an old subduction zone sideways provides insights into what controls plate coupling Reyners, M., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Bannister, S. 2017 Earth and Planetary Science Letters ,
466 pp. 53 – 61 .
4 . Among patients with unhealthy alcohol use, those with HIV are less likely than those without to receive evidence-based alcohol-related care: A national VA study Williams, E.C., Lapham, G.T., Shortreed, S.M., Rubinsky, A.D., Bobb, J.F., Bensley, K.M., Catz, S.L., Richards, J.E., Bradley, K.A. 2017 Drug and Alcohol Dependence ,
174 pp. 113 – 120 .
5 . Individual mental health, life course events and dynamic neighbourhood change during the transition to adulthood Brazil, N., Clark, W.A.V. 2017 Health and Place ,
45 pp. 99 – 109 .
6 . Identification of blind geothermal resources in Surprise Valley, CA, using publicly available groundwater well water quality data Fowler, A.P.G., Spycher, N., Zierenberg, R.A., Cantwell, C.A. 2017 Applied Geochemistry ,
80 pp. 24 – 48 .
7 . Low stomatal sensitivity to vapor pressure deficit in irrigated common, lima and tepary beans Medina, V., Teran, J.C.B.-M.Y., Gepts, P., Gilbert, M.E. 2017 Field Crops Research ,
206 pp. 128 – 137 .
8 . Current State of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Children’s Hospital Emergency Departments Mistry, R.D., Newland, J.G., Gerber, J.S., Hersh, A.L., May, L., Perman, S.M., Kuppermann, N., Dayan, P.S. 2017 Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ,
38 ( 4 ) pp. 469 – 475 .
9 . Increased cytokine production by monocytes from human subjects who consumed grape powder was not mediated by differences in dietary intake patterns Zunino, S.J., Keim, N.L., Kelley, D.S., Bonnel, E.L., Souza, E.C., Peerson, J.M. 2017 Nutrition Research ,
40 pp. 32 – 39 .
10 . Area-Level Poverty and Excess Hospital Readmission Ratios Manickam, R.N., Mu, Y., Kshirsagar, A.V., Bang, H. 2017 American Journal of Medicine ,
130 ( 4 ) pp. e153 – e155 .
11 . What are the type, direction, and strength of species, community, and ecosystem responses to warming in aquatic mesocosm studies and their dependency on experimental characteristics? A systematic review protocol Guy-Haim, T., Alexander, H., Bell, T.W., Bier, R.L., Bortolotti, L.E., Briseño-Avena, C., Dong, X., Flanagan, A.M., Grosse, J., Grossmann, L., Hasnain, S., Hovel, R., Johnston, C.A., Miller, D.R., Muscarella, M., Noto, A.E., Reisinger, A.J., Smith, H.J., Stamieszkin, K. 2017 Environmental Evidence ,
6 ( 1 ) pp. 1 – 6 .
12 . Calmodulin lobes facilitate dimerization and activation of estrogen receptor-α Li, Z., Zhang, Y., Hedman, A.C., Ames, J.B., Sacks, D.B. 2017 Journal of Biological Chemistry ,
292 ( 11 ) pp. 4614 – 4622 .
13 . Responsiveness of cats (Felidae) to silver vine (Actinidia polygama), Tatarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica), valerian (Valeriana officinalis) and catnip (Nepeta cataria) Bol, S., Caspers, J., Buckingham, L., Anderson-Shelton, G.D., Ridgway, C., Buffington, C.A.T., Schulz, S., Bunnik, E.M. 2017 BMC Veterinary Research ,
13 ( 1 ) , art. no. 70
14 . The acacia ants revisited: Convergent evolution and biogeographic context in an iconic ant/plant mutualism Ward, P.S., Branstetter, M.G. 2017 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences ,
284 ( 1850 ) , art. no. 20162569
15 . Previously unknown class of metalorganic compounds revealed in meteorites Ruf, A., Kanawati, B., Hertkorn, N., Yin, Q.-Z., Moritz, F., Harir, M., Lucio, M., Michalke, B., Wimpenny, J., Shilobreeva, S., Bronsky, B., Saraykin, V., Gabelica, Z., Gougeon, R.D., Quirico, E., Ralew, S., Jakubowski, T., Haack, H., Gonsior, M., Jenniskens, P., Hinman, N.W., Schmitt-Kopplin, P. 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ,
114 ( 11 ) pp. 2819 – 2824 .
16 . Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II Di Martino, A., O’Connor, D., Chen, B., Alaerts, K., Anderson, J.S., Assaf, M., Balsters, J.H., Baxter, L., Beggiato, A., Bernaerts, S., Blanken, L.M.E., Bookheimer, S.Y., Braden, B.B., Byrge, L., Castellanos, F.X., Dapretto, M., Delorme, R., Fair, D.A., Fishman, I., Fitzgerald, J., Gallagher, L., Keehn, R.J.J., Kennedy, D.P., Lainhart, J.E., Luna, B., Mostofsky, S.H., Müller, R.-A., Nebel, M.B., Nigg, J.T., O’Hearn, K., Solomon, M., Toro, R., Vaidya, C.J., Wenderoth, N., White, T., Craddock, R.C., Lord, C., Leventhal, B., Milham, M.P. 2017 Scientific Data ,
4 , art. no. 170010
17 . Assessing the spectral properties of sunlit and shaded components in rice canopies with near-ground imaging spectroscopy data Zhou, K., Deng, X., Yao, X., Tian, Y., Cao, W., Zhu, Y., Ustin, S.L., Cheng, T. 2017 Sensors (Switzerland) ,
17 ( 3 ) , art. no. 578
18 . Correlations between maternal, breast milk, and infant vitamin B12 concentrations among mother-infant dyads in Vancouver, Canada and Prey Veng, Cambodia: An exploratory analysis Chebaya, P., Karakochuk, C.D., March, K.M., Chen, N.N., Stamm, R.A., Kroeun, H., Sophonneary, P., Borath, M., Shahab-Ferdows, S., Hampel, D., Barr, S.I., Lamers, Y., Houghton, L.A., Allen, L.H., Green, T.J., Whitfield, K.C. 2017 Nutrients ,
9 ( 3 ) , art. no. 270
19 . Oral delivery of double-stranded RNAs induces mortality in nymphs and adults of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Galdeano, D.M., Breton, M.C., Lopes, J.R.S., Falk, B.W., Machado, M.A. 2017 PLoS ONE ,
12 ( 3 ) , art. no. e0171847
20 . Ledipasvir–sofosbuvir and sofosbuvir plus ribavirin in patients with chronic hepatitis C and bleeding disorders Walsh, C.E., Workowski, K., Terrault, N.A., Sax, P.E., Cohen, A., Bowlus, C.L., Kim, A.Y., Hyland, R.H., Han, B., Wang, J., Stamm, L.M., Brainard, D.M., McHutchison, J.G., von Drygalski, A., Rhame, F., Fried, M.W., Kouides, P., Balba, G., Reddy, K.R. 2017 Haemophilia ,
23 ( 2 ) pp. 198 – 206 .
21 . Maximizing the cost benefit of physics residency interview Adamson, J., Dieterich, S., Rong, Y. 2017 Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics ,
18 ( 2 ) pp. 5 – 8 .
22 . Bumblebee sonication behavior changes with plant species and environmental conditions Switzer, C.M., Combes, S.A. 2017 Apidologie ,
48 ( 2 ) pp. 223 – 233 .
23 . Increasing Rates of No Treatment in Advanced-Stage Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients: A Propensity-Matched Analysis David, E.A., Daly, M.E., Li, C.-S., Chiu, C.-L., Cooke, D.T., Brown, L.M., Melnikow, J., Kelly, K., Canter, R.J. 2017 Journal of Thoracic Oncology ,
12 ( 3 ) pp. 437 – 445 .
24 . Trametinib plus 4-Methylumbelliferone Exhibits Antitumor Effects by ERK Blockade and CD44 Downregulation and Affects PD-1 and PD-L1 in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Cho, H., Matsumoto, S., Fujita, Y., Kuroda, A., Menju, T., Sonobe, M., Kondo, N., Torii, I., Nakano, T., Lara, P.N., Gandara, D.R., Date, H., Hasegawa, S. 2017 Journal of Thoracic Oncology ,
12 ( 3 ) pp. 477 – 490 .
25 . Prospective data from the Women’s Health Initiative on depressive symptoms, stress, and inflammation Jones, S.M.W., Weitlauf, J., Danhauer, S.C., Qi, L., Zaslavsky, O., Wassertheil-Smoller, S., Brenes, G.A., Lacroix, A.Z. 2017 Journal of Health Psychology ,
22 ( 4 ) pp. 457 – 464 .
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Synthesis Digital Library Update February/March 2017

The Following Lectures Were Published
Synthesis Collection Seven:

Designing for Gesture and Tangible Interaction

Mary Lou Maher, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Lina Lee, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00758ED1V01Y201702HCI036

Information Architecture:
The Design and Integration of Information Spaces, Second Edition

Wei Ding, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Xia Lin, Drexel University
Michael Zarro, Project Management Institute
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00755ED2V01Y201701ICR056

The Maximum Consensus Problem: Recent Algorithmic Advances

Tat-Jun Chin and David Suter, The University of Adelaide
Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00757ED1V01Y201702COV011

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Elsevier publishes seven new neuroscience titles

STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Neural Data Science: A Primer with MATLAB® and PythonTM by Erik Lee Nylen and Pascal Wallisch. The book offers a beginner’s introduction to the principles of computation and data analysis in neuroscience, using both Python and MATLAB in parallel, giving readers the ability to transcend platform tribalism and enable coding versatility. Elsevier also announced the publication of six additional neuroscience books.
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ProQuest collaborates with Asian Studies scholars, librarians and Chinese-language publishers to meet demand for Chinese-language resources

ProQuest is collaborating with Asian Studies scholars, librarians and Chinese-language publishers to offer a selection of Chinese-language ebooks, enabling libraries to provide resources demanded by researchers. The growing collection spans thousands of titles available on the Ebook Central®, ebrary® and EBL platforms. The platforms’ multi-language interfaces accommodate readers of traditional and simplified Chinese, and other languages.
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Clarivate Analytics hosts publishing partners to discuss trends

As a leader across the entire information services landscape and a company that collects, curates and indexes researcher content, Clarivate Analytics brought together over 50 of its publishing partners – some who are also clients and some who are even competitors – at its Publisher Forum, held March 28. Keeping up with industry changes, trends and the competition were additional topics that attendees shared when they registered for the event, “What is the biggest challenge to your publishing program in 2017”? And, “What new trends in publishing should be on our radar”?
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EDP Sciences re-launches website with brand new design

Not-for-profit publisher EDP Sciences has re-launched its website with a brand new design, available both in French and English. As before, the website provides the gateway to all EDPS’ publications, news, highlights, and press releases, and detail on its Open Access programme. There are also in-depth resources for authors, librarians, subscribers, societies, and partners.
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Spanish National Research Council selects Ex Libris Alma to help improve support for scientific research in Spain

Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, or CSIC) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service to strengthen the Council’s support for Spain’s scientific research endeavours. Alma will be integrated with CSIC’s implementation of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution.
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CLIR and Jisc partner to enhance digital services

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Jisc recently announced a partnership to advance programmes of mutual interest for academic communities, on both sides of the Atlantic. Jisc, and CLIR, a US-based community-building, research, and leadership organisation, serving academic and cultural institutions, will explore transnational collaboration around the development of digital libraries and research data repositories.
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BioRAFT in deal with Stanford University to acquire ChemTracker brand and intellectual property

BioRAFT, a Digital Science portfolio company, has entered into an agreement with Stanford University to acquire the ChemTracker brand and intellectual property. Through this agreement BioRAFT will be able to integrate ChemTracker’s powerful chemical safety and regulatory information database with BioRAFT’s enterprise solution and user-friendly interface. Development will begin immediately on a ChemTracker module within BioRAFT.
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Elsevier announces four new engineering and manufacturing titles

STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Project Management, Planning and Control: Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards, Seventh Edition by Albert Lester. The updated edition includes new advice on information management, including big data, communication, dispute resolution, project governance, and building information modeling (BIM). Elsevier also announced the publication of three additional engineering and manufacturing books.
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University of Manchester selects ProQuest to digitise theses

The University of Manchester has signed a two-year Digital Archiving and Access Program (DAAP) agreement with ProQuest to preserve and promote its world-class research. In the first year alone, ProQuest will digitise thousands of theses, improving worldwide access and preserving them for generations of researchers.
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Frontline Medical Communications names Monique Michowski as Business Development Director for custom programs and Publisher for Ob.Gyn. News

Frontline Medical Communications (FMC) has announced the appointment of Monique Michowski as Business Development Director for custom programs and Publisher for Ob.Gyn. News®. Monique is a long time industry colleague who has worked for major publishing and market intelligence companies in roles ranging from art director to sales/account management and business development.
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The MIT Press integrates Altmetric Badges for Books into its book pages

Data science company Altmetric has announced that The MIT Press has integrated Altmetric Badges for Books into its book pages. Visitors will be provided with an at-a-glance summary of the online attention relating to all of their monograph titles, discovering for the first time the broader engagement from key audiences and stakeholders.
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National University of Ireland Galway opts for Ex Libris Alma and Primo discovery and delivery solution

Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution as a unified platform for delivering the university’s library services strategy. The cloud-based Alma and Primo solutions offer the stability of a hosted, vendor-maintained environment along with a steady pipeline of developments incorporating rapidly evolving technology.
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Healio.com unveils LearnImmunoOncology.com at HemOnc Today Melanoma 2017

Healio.com, the online home of HEMONC TODAY, has launched LearnImmunoOncology.com, a curriculum-based, online resource that offers physicians a guide for understanding advances in immuno-oncology. The site was officially unveiled at Learn Immuno-Oncology New York on March 23 – a one-day, live event held the day before HEMONC TODAY Melanoma 2017 in New York City.
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University of Central Asia selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services

Global library cooperative OCLC has announced that the University of Central Asia, a private, not-for-profit university, has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library management system. The move will significantly increase the speed of its cataloguing workflows and allow the library to rapidly expose their recently acquired collections to their users.
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NFAIS webinar – Taking Action Against Bias in Proprietary Content

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will be conducting a webinar on April 19th from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (EDT). The webinar will examine what bias exists, by whom, and the solutions that can be implemented so that knowledge continues to flow in a way that does not circumvent the relationship between researchers and reviewers, and supports a reliable scholarly communication process based on sound research practice, academic reward and funding.
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Elsevier announces publication of three new information security titles

STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Advanced Persistent Security: A Cyberwarfare Approach to Implementing Adaptive Enterprise Protection, Detection, and Reaction Strategies by Ira Winkler and Araceli Treu Gomes. Using recent high-profile cases such as Target, Sony and Home Depot, it explores information security risks, identifies the common threats organizations face, and presents tactics on how to prioritize the right countermeasures. Elsevier also announced the publication of two additional information security books.
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ReadCube and AAAS partner to enhance discoverability

Publishing technology company ReadCube has announced a new partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal,Science. Through this partnership, all six Science-branded titles have been deep-indexed via ReadCube Discover program and are easily discoverable across web, desktop, and mobile reading portals, search engines, related article and recommendation feeds.
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EBSCO Information Services names Holley Dumble as Vice President for Oceania

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the appointment of Holley Dumble as Vice President over-seeing universities, TAFEs, hospitals, corporations, government, state libraries, public libraries and schools in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and Fiji. Dumble will lead teams in these regions, and bring her experience to further enhance the value that EBSCO brings to customers in the territory.
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Neurology Reviews announces publication of 3rd annual Rare Neurological Disease Special Report in partnership with NORD

Neurology Reviews®, a Frontline Medical Communications (FMC) print and digital media publication, has announced the publication of the 3rd annual Rare Neurological Disease Special ReportTM, developed in partnership with NORD, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, the leading independent non-profit representing the 30 million Americans with rare diseases. Published as a supplement to the March issue of Neurology Reviews®, the 2017 Rare Neurological Disease Special ReportTM is the most extensive to date.
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Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM opts for Ex Libris Alma and Primo

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (IULM University) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® resource management service and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. With the combined platform, the university anticipates increasing integration with other campus and library systems, improving the discovery experience for users, and creating innovative new services.
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AGU partners with Authorea to offer one-click submission of manuscripts

Authorea, an online collaborative editor for research documents, has announced a partnership with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to offer one-click direct submission of articles written on Authorea to a collection of leading earth and space science journals published by AGU. AGU publishes over 6,000 articles annually across its catalog of journals.
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Elsevier publishes six new comprehensive geoscience titles

STM Publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Data Assimilation for the Geosciences: From Theory to Application by Steven J. Fletcher. The book brings together in one place all mathematical, statistical and probability background knowledge necessary to formulate data assimilation systems. It also demonstrates how data assimilation systems are implemented in larger scale fluid dynamical problems related to the atmosphere, oceans, the land surface and other geophysical situations. Elsevier also announced the publication of five additional geoscience books.
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PubFactory and TrendMD partner to deliver enhanced discoverability tools

PubFactory has partnered with TrendMD to make content recommendation engine available across the platform. With a rapidly growing index consisting of more than 12 million articles from over 3,300 publications, TrendMD’s ‘smart recommendations’ tackle the perpetual publisher challenge of connecting readers to the right content at the right time.
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The CCDC and FIZ Karlsruhe partner to provide single point access to all small molecule crystal data

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (The CCDC) and FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (FIZ Karlsruhe) have announced the start of a joint development project that will deliver for the first time shared deposition and access services for crystallographic data across all domains of chemistry, including organic, inorganic and metal-organic structures. The resulting capability – to search over one million crystallographic structures and to deposit data for the CCDC’s Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and FIZ Karlsruhe’s Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) and their underlying CIF depots at a single source – will benefit researchers and educators across the chemistry disciplines.
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CABI launches new Horticulture Compendium

Scientific publisher CABI has launched its Horticulture Compendium, a new, unique encyclopaedic resource of authoritative horticultural datasheets providing global coverage of temperate, tropical and subtropical food crops. It joins CABI’s critically-acclaimed compendia series, making a real difference to the working lives of people across the globe by bringing together a vast selection of information into one place.
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AAOS releases new Orthopaedic Knowledge Update (OKU 12)

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has released the twelfth edition of OKU (Orthopaedic Knowledge Update), the authoritative and indispensable guide on general and specialty orthopaedics that also is a key tool in preparing for Board certification and recertification. First published in 1984, the completely new OKU 12 (not a revision of OKU 11) is available in print, eBook or flash drive formats. The new edition features the most up-to-date research and clinical information from the past three years.
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Ex Libris Alma and Leganto integrated with CLA’s Digital Content Store

Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, and the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) have announced that the integration of the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Ex Libris LegantoSM reading list solution with the Digital Content Store (DCS), CLA’s coursepack management tool, has been enhanced. The DCS is a rights, technology, and content platform for higher education institutions (HEIs).
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Japanese science stalls over past decade, threatening position among world’s elite

According to the Nature Index, Japan’s scientific output has failed to keep pace with other leading nations over the past decade, risking its position among the world’s elite if renewed government efforts fail to reverse a downward trend in its performance. Japan’s share of high-quality papers included in the Nature Index dropped by 6% between 2012 and 2016.
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LabNetwork collaborates with Elsevier to simplify and accelerate purchasing decisions for chemical companies and researchers

LabNetwork, WuXi AppTec’s global chemistry ecommerce platform company, has announced a new collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier. LabNetwork’s nearly four million commercially available discovery and research compounds will now be directly available to users of Reaxys, Elsevier’s premier chemistry database.
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Plenaries at the American Chemical Society meeting to focus on energy, materials and partnerships

Scientists, in four plenary talks, will explore a variety of subjects related to the ‘Advanced Materials, Technologies, Systems & Processes’ theme of the 253rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. The meeting will take place April 2- 6, 2017, in San Francisco.
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JSTOR releases JSTOR Sustainability to advance environmental research

JSTOR, the not-for-profit digital library, has released JSTOR Sustainability, a new online resource that brings together journals, policy research and books on the topic of environmental sustainability and resilience along with a set of tools to enable easy exploration of topics and ideas whether they are being discussed by an economist, scientist, or an urban planner.
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F1000 partners with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch an open research publishing platform

F1000, a provider of a suite of services to support researchers, institutions and funders, has announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch an open research publishing platform. Due to launch in the third quarter of 2017, Gates Open Research will be a new publishing option that will increase the speed and transparency of scholarly publishing by Gates-funded researchers.
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ÜberResearch and Leidos partner to add global research funding landscape to OnPar

ÜberResearch, a data and analytics solutions and services company serving scientific funders and research organisations, has announced a partnership with global science and technology solutions and services provider, Leidos, to OnPAR. OnPAR is the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research and was originally launched in March 2016 by the Leidos Life Sciences team, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ismael Ràfols, Nicolas Robinson-García and Thed N. van Leeuwen (How to make altmetrics useful in societal impact assessments: shifting from citation to interaction approaches); David Smith (Living with an AI: A Glimpse Into The Future); Phil Davis (Wither Portable Peer Review); Jeremy Cubert (Publish or Perish? The Balance Between Public Disclosure and IP Protection in Scientific Research); and Joe Wikert (Here’s how to turn book samples into a powerful B2C tool). 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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