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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of the globally oriented new title, Encyclopedia of Food and Health. The five-volume encyclopaedia provides readers with comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics, from food production and processing to health effects. Elsevier also announced the publication of four additional food and health books. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Springer, part of the newly formed publishing group Springer Nature, is sponsoring the Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition. This high-profile event challenges doctoral students to condense and explain years of research to a non-specialist audience in a matter of minutes. Doctoral candidates from 50 universities across the Asia Pacific will take part in the contest on 2 October 2015 at the University of Queensland, Australia. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The 2016 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) advises that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic/medical libraries are expected to be in the range of 4 to 6 percent (before currency impact). EBSCO releases the Serials Price Projections based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data to assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for renewals season. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Health Division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced its support for the National Health IT (NHIT) Week. The event is a week-long virtual celebration of the value of health IT that runs October 5-9, 2015 and culminates in the two-day HIMSS Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, an international journal featuring the latest research in power and energy systems, is now available in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems is published by the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE) in collaboration with CEPRI (China Electric Power Research Institute) and IEEE. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Unbound Medicine, a knowledge management solutions provider for healthcare, has launched a leading-edge differential diagnosis app for health professionals in collaboration with the publishing arm of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Derived from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5®) Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, the app combines interactive guidance with expert commentary, enabling clinicians to perform faster and more accurate psychiatric diagnoses at the point of care. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Prof. Karen Egiazarian of Tampere University of Technology in Finland has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI) starting January 1, 2016. The journal is published by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), one of the world’s leading technical universities, is now live using OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its library management system. The university library is the second in the Netherlands to go live with WMS, following Tilburg University. Other libraries in the Netherlands are expected to follow the lead of TU Delft and Tilburg University as they implement WMS in the coming months. More Search for more news in this Category |
IEEE Launches IEEE Collabratec™ Enabling Technology Professionals to Network, Collaborate, and Create
IEEE Launches IEEE Collabratec™ Enabling Technology Professionals to Network, Collaborate, and Create
New Centralized Hub Connects Technology Professionals Around the World
September 28, 2015 – IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced the launch of IEEE Collabratec, a suite of online tools that enables technology professionals around the world to network, collaborate, create, and discover new career opportunities — all within a centralized hub.
This new, integrated, online community is a global solution for connecting technology professionals by location, technical interests, or career pursuits. In addition to providing access to exclusive professional networking groups and communities, IEEE Collabratec offers:
- Private virtual work spaces where users can assemble global working groups
- The ability for authors to collaborate online, enabling them to publish and research faster
- A suite of tools for managing a personal research library and bibliographies
- Updates on resources, events, and experts that match and advance professional interests or career pursuits
- Access to cutting-edge research and collaborative authoring capabilities integrated within professional networks
IEEE Collabratec offers exclusive features for IEEE members including the ability to search community members based on membership grade and area of interest, as well as the ability to coordinate IEEE initiatives and events.
Learn more at https://ieee-collabratec.ieee.org.
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STM publisher Elsevier will unveil its new, next-generation personalised learning solution at the National League for Nursing (NLN) Education Summit, from September 30 – October 2, in Las Vegas. The first of its kind for nursing education, Sherpath uses data, analytics and adaptive techniques to track students’ interactions with content, assessments and simulations while providing a highly focused learning path for each student. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Professional information services provider Wolters Kluwer has released Lippincott CoursePoint+, a fully integrated and personalised platform that drives course and curriculum success to prepare students for practice. Lippincott CoursePoint+ is a single destination for learning where faculty and administrators can assess student performance in real-time to make data-driven teaching decisions, facilitating early remediation at the point of learning. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ProQuest is working with Cornell University Library to develop a dynamic book-selection system that will aggregate metadata from multiple sources into a single streamlined interface. This will enable highly efficient selection and acquisitions workflows. The custom interface is part of a new agreement in which Cornell University Library will use ProQuest as the primary source for its English-language print books, a significant expansion of Cornell University Library’s long-standing relationship with Coutts Information Services for print and ebook Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) programs. More Search for more news in this Category |
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IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, has announced the launch of IEEE Collabratec, a suite of online tools that enables technology professionals around the world to network, collaborate, create, and discover new career opportunities — all within a centralised hub. This new, integrated, online community is a global solution for connecting technology professionals by location, technical interests, or career pursuits. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic publisher SAGE and The Conversation, a major online news website supporting access to high quality academic research, have announced that Ziyad Marar, SAGE’s Global Publishing director, will be joining The Conversation’s board. Originally launched in Australia in 2011 and now their largest independent news site, The Conversation UK, brings a unique combination of academic rigor and journalistic flair to the world of academic research. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has launched a brand new IUCr Journals website, for researchers involved in structural determination. The new design is clean, bright and adaptable to different screen sizes. Many subtle changes have been introduced to the article format to help improve the overall clarity of the HTML text. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the appointment of Harriet Bell to the new position of Marketing Director, taking responsibility for the development and delivery of the company’s marketing operations worldwide. Harriet joins Emerald following a 20-year career primarily in scholarly and academic publishing, most recently as VP, Journal & Data Solutions at RELX Group. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Altmetric and Publishing Technology have announced a new partnership that will enable publishers hosting content on the ingentaconnect platform to embed Altmetric badges onto their article pages, giving greater visibility of online impact data for their titles. Under the new arrangement, ingentaconnect publishers will benefit from a streamlined integration process, making it easy for them to track and review the online attention data Altmetric will collect relating to their published content. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, will be presenting on “Deep Indexing for Enhanced Researchability” at the Professional & Scientific Information (Hall 4.2) Hot Spot stage on October 14, 2015 from 10.30 – 11.00 am at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair. In this session, Deborah Harman, Associate Vice President, Business Development for Scope e-Knowledge Center, will offer practical examples of deep indexing with human curation by SMEs to enhance researchability. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced a collaboration in the development of Mosby’s Care Assistant Curriculum with the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care (NADONA/LTC), the largest organisation dedicated exclusively to providing education, communication, and services to nurse leaders and nurse executives in the long-term and post-acute care continuum. This online course will serve as a resource for training new nursing hires, transitioning personnel to new units, addressing knowledge gaps, and preparing for annual competency testing. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Publisher Future Science Group (FSG) has announced its support of the AllTrials campaign. The AllTrials campaign aims to improve transparency and reporting of clinical trials. These aims align with those of Future Science Group (FSG), which believes that every trial should be conducted in a transparent and reproducible manner, ensuring that all research, even where negative or inconclusive, is both trustworthy and available to inform medical decision-making. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), a library consortium in Germany’s most populous state, has signed an agreement with OCLC to add 19 million bibliographic records from the consortium to WorldCat, making these valuable collections more visible and accessible to scholars around the world. Based in Cologne, hbz works as a central development and service organisation for university, college and specialised libraries, as well as data processing centers in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Association of Learned and Professional Publishers (ALPSP) and Copyright Clearance Center have announced a webinar titled ‘Make a World of Difference: How society publishers can extend their global outreach.’ This is a must attend event for those with responsibility for collaborative partnerships or strategic input into publishing, marketing, sales or business development. The session is scheduled for October 26, 2015, online 11:00 – 12:30 ET. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Not-for-profit organization CABI and Book Aid International are collaborating to bring specialist scientific books on agriculture and tropical health to students at universities, medical schools and colleges in sub-Saharan Africa. The books have been carefully selected for institutions like the Mzuzu Agriculture Vocation College in Malawi and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya to help students and staff with their studies and teaching. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Sheridan has expanded its automated print management system, Sheridan Select, to include a self-service component granting publishers the ability to upload a book or journal title and place a print-on-demand (POD) order within a single transaction. Upon logging in to the Sheridan Select portal and initiating a POD order, publishers are now provided the ability to define and order brand new titles in addition to selecting from their existing titles. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Research that informs sustainable development is experiencing a surge as innovative ways to preserve environmental health and safeguard societal well-being top global leaders’ agendas, a report by Elsevier and SciDev.Net, released on the eve of the United Nation’s Sustainability Summit shows. Underpinned by the 17 new United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the report examines global research output and citation impact, research collaboration among nations and sectors, and the interdisciplinary nature of research in the field between 2009 and 2013. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic publisher Taylor & Francis and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) have announced a new publishing agreement. Taylor & Francis will publish IOSH’s academic and policy discourse journal – Policy and Practice in Health and Safety (PPHS) from 2016. PPHS is an important source of reference for anyone studying or working at a professional level in health and safety. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Scientific and medical publishers Thieme Publishers will introduce ten new titles at the annual American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNSF) meeting taking place in Dallas, Texas at the end of September. Featured among these are Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery by Matthew L. Carlson, Kathryn M. Van Abel, David J. Archibald, and Daniel L. Price, and Geriatric Otolaryngology by Robert T. Sataloff, Michael M. Johns III, and Karen M. Kost. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Publishers Association (PA) has announced that its chief executive, Richard Mollet, will step down in 2016 to become head of European Government Affairs at RELX Group (formerly known as Reed Elsevier). At RELX, Mollet will be part of the global government affairs team working across its publishing, business information and exhibitions businesses. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced that Professor Christoph Zielinski will be the Editor-in-Chief of ESMO Open, ESMO’s new, peer reviewed, open access, online only journal. The journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality medical research and educational content from all disciplines of oncology, with a focus on innovative clinical and translational cancer research. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for professional achievement, including the HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is December 1, 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Outsell, Inc., a research and advisory firm focused on media, information, and technology, has announced publication of a new report, Adaptive Learning: Best Practice Review and Future Outlook. The report shows that adaptive learning is rapidly becoming a central pillar of digital educational publishing, but that the market is experiencing underlying confusion because the meaning attached to the word ‘adaptive’ differs from one solution to the other, and because different solutions providers use a range of approaches to deliver adaptivity in a number of ways. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2015 Citation Laureates. Having accurately forecast 37 Nobel Prize winners since 2002, the annual study mines scientific research citations within the Web of Science —the premier global search and discovery platform for the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities—to identify the most influential researchers in chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics who are likely winners of the Nobel Prize now or in the future. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Health division of Wolters Kluwer has announced that Health Language experts will lead a breakout session titled ‘A Strategic Approach to Terminology Management Challenges in Population Health and Analytics’ at the 87th Annual AHIMA Convention and Exhibit. Dr. Stephen Ross, Medical Informatics Specialist, and Brian Laberge, Director of Client Services Strategy, will discuss the critical role terminology management strategies play in achieving success with population health management (PHM) and data analytics. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press has announced the launch of Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies (MCS), a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal in the field of precision medicine. Dr. Elaine Mardis serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Dr. Mardis currently also serves as Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, and Co-Director of the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The United States Senate recently confirmed Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew’s nomination to be director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Institute, an independent United States government agency, is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Content solutions provider Publishing Technology plc has announced the promotion of Chief Technology Officer David Montgomery to the position of acting CEO with immediate effect, as Michael Cairns steps down from his role at the company. Since joining Publishing Technology in November 2014, David Montgomery has been responsible for leading the company’s IT strategy and implementing its product roadmap. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Springer, part of the newly formed publishing group Springer Nature, and Politecnico di Torino, Italy’s oldest technical university, will partner to publish a new book series called PoliTO Springer Series. Focusing on cutting-edge research and practical applications across a wide spectrum of fields, the series will publish around 15 books a year. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Elsevier and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), has announced the winners of the 2015 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards. More than 100 guests representing the best from India’s scientific community attended the awards ceremony – now in its sixth year of inception – held at the Hyatt Regency, New Delhi. Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India & Chairman Scientific Advisory Committee to Cabinet, presented the awards to this year’s winners. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced that Neurointerventional Techniques: Tricks of the Trade, by L. Fernando Gonzalez, Felipe C. Albuquerque, and Cameron McDougall, has won Highly Commended in the Neurology category at the 2015 British Medical Association’s Medical Book Awards ceremony recently held in London. Through this competition the BMA aims to foster and reward excellence in medical publishing. More Search for more news in this Category |
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It has been almost two years since Dove’s membership was terminated owing to concerns about the rigour of the editorial and peer review processes at the journals. The OASPA Membership Committee is satisfied that the new editorial procedures which are now in place have addressed the concerns that were raised during the investigation last year and, as a result, the Committee has decided to reinstate Dove Medical Press as a full member of OASPA. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has announced the publication of seven articles in its new Journal of Global Oncology (JGO). The first articles for this online-only, open-access journal are now available at www.jgo.org. The journal is funded through the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology with the support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Novartis Oncology. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Wellspring, the leader in technology scouting, technology transfer, and corporate venturing software, and Deep Web Technologies (DWT), the leader in next-generation federated search, have announced a partnership that transforms how organisations find and evaluate emerging technologies. The integrated software system delivers the capability for organisations to search simultaneously from over thirty authoritative sources, including patent, publication, expertise, and invention databases, to discover the highest potential opportunities and investments. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) celebrated its 75th anniversary of advancing learning and transforming scholarship in the higher education community in 2014. A major part of this celebration included honouring the outstanding achievements of academic and research librarians. Made possible by generous corporate support, the annual presentation of ACRL’s awards, grants and fellowships enables ACRL to honour the very best in academic librarianship. This year, ACRL once again seeks to celebrate and recognise the accomplishments of its peers. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new journal – Obesity Medicine. The journal will serve clinical scientists in all disciplines, medical practitioners, health-care providers as well as social scientists and the public interested in scientific information on all aspects of obesity. It will appear four times a year online and will be rolled out in Elsevier’s brand new electronic submission and review system EVISE®. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has re-launched its Author Services website, with new resources for all researchers looking to publish a journal article. With information on choosing a journal, writing a paper, what to expect during peer review and production, as well as what to think about once you’re published, the website guides researchers through the journal publishing process from initial idea to post-publication. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has extended its successful publishing partnership with the American Heart Association (AHA). In place for nearly two decades, the longstanding partnership has evolved beyond traditional print publishing to include web and mobile platforms, as well as open access. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that the Article Processing Charge (APC) for PLOS ONE authors will increase to $1,495 as of October 1, 2015 (effective 10:00 AM PDT). This is the first increase in the PLOS ONE APC since 2009. PLOS ONE promotes a broad global reach designed to amplify the journal and individual article awareness. Currently, PLOS ONE journal articles garner more than 1.9 million article downloads per month. More Search for more news in this Category |
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HighWire Press, Inc., the leading technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced the appointment of Jennifer Chang as Vice President, Publisher Relations. Jennifer comes to HighWire to lead the global publisher relations team. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The National Library of New Zealand has selected OCLC to host Te Puna Services, a collection of online tools and services created with New Zealand librarians to support daily workflows in searching, cataloguing, resource sharing and managing collections. By selecting OCLC to host and manage these other services, the National Library will significantly reduce its administrative workload and maintenance tasks. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Cengage Learning, a global education company, has announced the acquisition of Learning Objects, a Washington, D.C.-based education technology company. Learning Objects powers innovative, customised and adaptive online learning programs and courses to higher education institutions through its state-of-the-art learning platform and instructional design services. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Editage, English-language editing and publication support services provider, has announced a partnership with the Society of American Foresters (SAF), a scientific and educational organisation representing the forestry profession in the United States and the largest professional society for foresters worldwide. Through a co-branded author services website, Editage will offer discounted English-language editing, translation services, and other manuscript preparation services to authors wishing to contribute to an SAF journal. More Search for more news in this Category |
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A recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information reveals that reference management tools such as Mendeley and ReadCube only generate 1% to 2% of scientific and technical journal sales, but publishers are betting on them in a big way to build deeper relationships with customers. The report, Global Scientific & Technical Publishing 2015-2019, found that the global scientific and technical publishing market saw very modest growth in 2014 with total sales up only 1.6%. More Search for more news in this Category |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Heliyon, its new open access journal publishing research across all disciplines, has published its first eight papers since the journal opened for submissions earlier this year. Covering topics as diverse as Yard-long beans in Sri Lanka and cattle in Western Germany, the newly published papers span multiple research disciplines from authors across four continents. More Search for more news in this Category |
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IPR License, the global rights and licensing specialists, has announced a partnership with global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ, extending its reach into the STM marketplace. BMJ is looking to utilise the fully transactional rights and licensing marketplace TradeRights, IPR’s flagship product, to reach a wider international audience for its extensive collection of journal and book rights. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that UpToDate®, its acclaimed clinical decision support resource, is recognised as a Continuing Medical Education (CME)/Continuing Professional Development (CPD) resource by the Turkish Medical Association (TMA). For Turkish clinicians, UpToDate can be used as a continuing medical education resource that provides the most current clinical research coupled with expert recommendations to help them provide the best care for their patients. More Search for more news in this Category |
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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, has implemented EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery tool. The university was looking to deliver the best possible search for its students and after evaluating discovery services over the past two years, it decided to implement EDS due to its relevancy ranking and vast amount of content. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Academic journal management platform Scholastica and data science company Altmetric have announced the release of a new free-to-download eBook resource: The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From bibliometrics to altmetrics. This eBook provides an overview of the ongoing changes in the impacts and metrics landscape, and offers a handy guide for any journal editor or researcher interested to learn more about the latest developments in the area. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ZB MED – Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences has announced a partnership with DeepDyve to provide online access to millions of fulltext articles available in its research portal LIVIVO. The content is provided to users instantly via the cloud on a monthly subscription basis for web browser viewing. This innovative new service enables scientists, particularly those no longer affiliated with an academic library, to gain instant and affordable access to authoritative content from thousands of leading journals. More Search for more news in this Category |
Synthesis Digital Library Update August 2015
The Following Lectures Were Published in August.
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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College Hossein Ali Mohammadpour and Enrico Santi Eileen Fitzpatrick, Montclair State University William Jones, University of Washington Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell Atefeh Farzindar, NLP Technologies Inc. Mark S. Manasse Mahinda Vilathgamuwa, Queensland University of Technology Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Shane Parris, and Abhishek Sehgal Apek Mulay, Mulay’s Consultancy Services |