 International repository networks meet to strengthen their aim to develop a global, open access knowledge commons |
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For a second year in a row, major open access repository networks met to develop closer ties and further align their expanding repository networks. The meeting, organised by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), was held on April 16, 2015 in Porto, Portugal and included representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Springer launches open access journal Clinical Phytoscience |
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STM publisher Springer has launched a new open access journal Clinical Phytoscience. The international, open access journal will publish high-quality research articles on clinical evidence and use of medicinal plants in the development of efficient and well-tolerated phytotherapy. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Elsevier and the International Solar Energy Society renew publishing partnership |
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STM publisher Elsevier and the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) have announced a renewal of their publishing agreement. Elsevier and ISES have been publishing partners since 2002. Under the agreement, Elsevier will continue to provide publishing services for the society’s journal Solar Energy. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Latest PA figures reveal digital innovation driving publisher revenues |
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Figures recently released by The Publishers Association reveal the UK publishing industry to be maintaining its strength, diversity and innovation. Overall book and academic journal sales remain steady at £4.3billion with digital revenues growing to 35 percent of the overall total. Export sales now account for 44 percent of revenue. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Reprints Desk and Association of Southeastern Research Libraries announce new purchasing agreement |
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Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company and pioneer in providing on-demand access to scientific, technical and medical (STM) content, has announced a new preferred purchasing agreement with the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). ASERL is a consortium of 38 research libraries located across 11 southeastern states. More Search for more news in this Category |
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| Elsevier launches OA journal bridging nutrition and food science – NFS Journal |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of NFS Journal, a new open access journal. The journal is published by Elsevier in cooperation with the Society of Nutrition and Food Science (SNFS), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing together nutrition and food scientists and to advance scientific progress and education in both fields. More Search for more news in this Category |
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University of Waikato joins growing community of libraries using ProQuest Intota |
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The University of Waikato joins the growing community of libraries around the world using IntotaTM, a cloud-based library services platform. Empowering libraries to make data-driven decisions about their collections, Intota delivers an intuitive, user-friendly discovery and access experience for patrons. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Alzheimer’s Association launches new OA journal – Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring |
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The Alzheimer’s Association and Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association have introduced a new open access journal – creating an additional channel for Alzheimer’s and dementia researchers to communicate scientific findings and knowledge. The journal, Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (DADM), serves as a companion to the Association’s flagship journal. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Researcher Glen Wright to be first guest editor of Wiley’s Exchanges blog |
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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced Glen Wright, a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris, as the first guest editor of Wiley’s Exchanges blog. For one week, starting May 11, 2015, he will take over the blog’s reins to explore ‘The PhD Path Less Travelled.’ More Search for more news in this Category |
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McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect and SmartBook win three honours at 2015 CODiE Awards |
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Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education has announced that two of its key digital products, McGraw-Hill Connect® and SmartBook®, won a total of three honours at the 2015 SIIA CODiE awards for education technology. The CODiE Awards, an annual program that recognises excellence in software development, is the only peer-recognition program of its kind. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Industrial Biotechnology named official journal of the BIO World Congress |
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The Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO’s) prestigious World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology has selected Industrial Biotechnology (IB), published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, as its official journal. Led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Dr. Glenn Nedwin and Dr. Larry Walker, Industrial Biotechnology is an authoritative journal focused on bio-based industrial and environmental products and processes, and is published bimonthly in print and online. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Springer Science+Business Media and majority of Macmillan Science and Education combined to form new company, Springer Nature |
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Key competition authorities including the European Union and the US Department of Justice have cleared the merger of Springer Science+Business Media and the majority of Macmillan Science and Education. The new company will be called Springer Nature. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier introduces three books on sustainability and efficiency in civil engineering materials and infrastructure |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of three new books on sustainability and efficiency in civil engineering materials and infrastructure, a growing area of research and development. These books include Eco-efficient Materials for Mitigating Building Cooling Needs, edited by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, João Labrincha, Luísa F. Cabeza and Claes-Göran Granqvist. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Call for contributions to the 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing |
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The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, will be holding the 7th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) this year at the Trippenhuis at The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, September 15-17, 2015. The conference is directed towards the interests of professional publishing organisations, independent publishers and university presses, librarians, university administrators, funding organisations, policy makers and other stakeholders. More Search for more news in this Category |
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UpToDate supports quick and accurate decision support for diagnosis and treatment |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that in a survey of nearly 16,000 clinicians who use UpToDate®, 94 percent confirmed that use of the clinical decision support resource improves the quality of care they provide. Additionally, by the end of 2014, UpToDate users in more than 170 countries worldwide viewed more than 26 million clinical topics per month, on average. In Germany alone, 95 percent of all university hospitals use UpToDate. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Maney Publishing and Durham University partner for archaeology PhD studentships |
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Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced a partnership with Durham University to offer three-year scholarships for UK/EU archaeology PhD students. The scholarship includes full fees for three years and an annual £3,000 stipend, which is contingent on the student making satisfactory progress in his or her annual review. Ideal candidates will be undertaking doctoral studies in the archaeology of the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean. More Search for more news in this Category |
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IMS Health acquires Dataline Software |
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Global information and technology services company IMS Health has acquired Dataline Software, a leader in Big Data analytics for healthcare, to extend its technology-enabled Real-World Evidence (RWE) platform and accelerate delivery of integrated clinical and cost-of-care insights for assessing healthcare value and performance. Dataline’s powerful software tools significantly expand the capabilities of Evidence 360TM, IMS Health’s scalable and secure RWE platform that helps clients extract, analyse and visualise real-world data to better understand and measure healthcare outcomes. More Search for more news in this Category |
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A network of four academic libraries in Berlin opt for Ex Libris Alma |
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Library automation services provider Ex Libris Group has announced that a network of four university libraries in Berlin, Germany, has chosen Ex Libris Alma to provide unified resource management. The network is comprised of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the Universität der Künste Berlin. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier launches Knovel Quick Search for AutoCAD |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Knovel Quick Search for AutoCAD. Available to customers at no cost, the feature rich, easy-to-use search plugin connects Knovel’s essential insights with one of the most widely used CAD software programs in engineering markets. This integration significantly improves the users’ efficiency and workflow. More Search for more news in this Category |
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SAGE launches streaming video collections to support pedagogical, curricular and research needs |
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Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced the launch of SAGE Video, streaming video collections designed to support a range of needs across higher education, including pedagogical use in undergraduate teaching and learning and higher-level academic study and research. Celebrating 50 years as a social and behavioural science publisher in 2015, the first three collections of video content – available now – include Education, Communication and Media Studies, and Counseling and Psychotherapy. More collections will be added in 2016. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition transfers to BioMed Central |
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Open access publisher BioMed Central will publish the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. The journal was first published in 1983 and in transferring to the open access publisher it joins the growing number of global health journals within the portfolio. BioMed Central and the journal’s new Editor-in-Chief, Abdullah Baqui, hope to continue the distinguished history of the journal established by the public health research organisation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), which was associated with the journal from 2000 to 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
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EBSCO unveils customisable newsletter tool to help professionals share content efficiently |
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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the availability of its newsletter builder tool that lets corporate librarians and information professionals share information with stakeholders across their organisations via customized e-newsletters. EBSCO Newsletter Builder enables professionals in corporations of all sizes to find focused content from known sources and share it with colleagues easily. More Search for more news in this Category |
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New COAR Executive Board elected |
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The election of the new Executive Board (2015 – 2018) took place at the COAR General Assembly on April 14, 2015. The new Board, which has been expanded from three to six members, reflects the increasingly international nature of COAR with representatives from Europe, Africa, Latin America, and North America. More Search for more news in this Category |
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U.S. Senate confirms Willie E. May as 15th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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On May 4, 2015, the U.S. Senate confirmed Willie E. May as the second Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the 15th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). May has been serving as acting director since June 2014. He has worked at NIST since 1971, leading research activities in chemical and biological measurement science activities prior to serving as associate director for laboratory programs and principal deputy to the NIST director. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Public Reading Network of Euskadi becomes first public library group in Spain to make its collections globally accessible via WorldCat |
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Red de Lectura Pública de Euskadi (Public Reading Network of Euskadi) has announced that its union catalogue, which represents the collections of more than 240 municipal libraries in the Basque Country of Spain, will be added to WorldCat in 2015. The Network will add more than 650,000 records to WorldCat, including approximately 55,000 Basque titles. More Search for more news in this Category |
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CCC named one of ‘10 to Watch’ in Outsell’s 2015 Open Access Market Report |
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Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has been named one of ’10 to Watch’ in Outsell, Inc.’s ‘Open Access 2015: Market Size, Share, Forecast, and Trends’ report. In its report, Outsell defines the market, estimates its growth and identifies the major contributors that are developing an infrastructure to support the Open Access (OA) landscape. More Search for more news in this Category |
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| Elsevier’s Free MOOC to help med students prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Examination |
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STM publisher Elsevier has launched a free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) designed to help medical students prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, the first and most daunting of the three exams medical students must complete to become physicians. This new MOOC is accessible to the more than 40,000 US medical students and thousands outside of the US preparing to take the USMLE Step 1. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Lipscomb University in Tennessee selects Encore Duet with EDS |
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Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, has selected Encore Duet, which offers patrons a single search of local books and digital resources, plus content from EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) that brings users the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and e-books available. Encore Duet is a collaboration between Innovative and EBSCO to provide access to EDS within the Encore experience. More Search for more news in this Category |
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McGraw-Hill Education appoints Catherine J. Mathis as Chief Communications Officer |
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McGraw-Hill Education, the learning science company, has announced that Catherine J. Mathis has joined the company as chief communications officer. In this role, she will be responsible for conception, design and implementation of corporate communication strategies targeted to critical business, media and education policy-related audiences. More Search for more news in this Category |
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NLM and FDA launch public access to Global Unique Device Identification Database |
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The FDA, in partnership with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), has announced that data submitted to FDA’s Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) is now publicly available through a website called AccessGUDID. With the launch of this beta version of AccessGUDID, healthcare systems, clinicians, patients, researchers, industry and others are encouraged to explore its content, assess its functionality and provide feedback. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Ex Libris collaborates with Instructure to integrate Ex Libris Leganto reading-list solution with the Instructure Canvas learning management system |
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Library automation solutions Ex Libris® Group announced that it will be collaborating with Instructure, a software as-a-service (SaaS) company and creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS), as a member of Instructure’s certified partnership program. Mutual customers of the two companies will benefit from the tight integration of the new Ex Libris Leganto reading-list solution and Canvas. More Search for more news in this Category |
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USTR’s 2015 Special 301 Report highlights key IP issues, misses out on importance of copyright concerns in Canada |
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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has applauded the release of the US Trade Representative (USTR) 2015 Special 301 Report, identifying many key copyright concerns and market-access barriers in U.S. trading partners. However, AAP is disappointed that the 2015 Report again fails to identify as a priority the harm caused to publishers and authors by Canada’s undefined ‘education’ as fair dealing exception. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Google to spend EUR150 million in Europe on grants for digital journalism experimentation |
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Amid increasing tensions with EU regulators and publishers, internet giant Google announced that it will spend EUR150 million ($164 million) in Europe on grants for digital journalism experimentation. The pledge is the latest attempt by Google to present a friendlier front in Europe, where it is confronting antitrust charges and has experienced harsh criticism from some publishers over its strategies. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier provides free online access to disaster and international health information in Nepal |
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STM publisher Elsevier is providing free access to its primary online clinical information tool, ClinicalKey, and to more than 90 publications through the NIH’s Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) to support the health and disaster professionals responding to the Nepal earthquake. Access to Elsevier’s ClinicalKey, at www.clinicalkey.com, will be IP-validated throughout Nepal for hospitals, institutional libraries and other healthcare entities supporting the disaster relief and recovery efforts, starting May 1, for four weeks. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Wolters Kluwer and Anahp partner to improve quality of healthcare in Brazil |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced a new partnership with Anahp, the national association of private hospitals in Brazil, an organisation representing the country’s major private hospitals. The agreement is part of the company’s strategic efforts to continue overall growth in the Brazilian market and expand the adoption of UpToDate®. More Search for more news in this Category |
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EBSCO Information Services continues collaboration with OASIS |
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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) plans to continue its relationship with OASIS, enabling libraries to purchase its selection of more than 700,000 e-books through the OASIS platform. The move follows the recent acquisition of Coutts by ProQuest. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Oxford University Press provides free online access to biomedical journals for healthcare professionals responding to earthquake in Nepal |
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Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is partnering with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as they launch their Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) to provide free access to biomedical research for healthcare professionals and aid workers responding to the recent earthquake in Nepal. As part of this initiative, OUP will provide free access to over 532,000 articles from 71 journals, which will be freely available until May 23, 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The BMJ calls on the next Health Secretary to ‘secure the NHS’s future’ |
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Healthcare knowledge provider The BMJ called on the next Secretary of State for Health to ‘secure the NHS’s future as the best and fairest health service in the world.’ In an open letter, Editor-in-chief, Dr Fiona Godlee, and colleagues say England’s NHS is stretched close to breaking point – and they set down what they believe is needed to heal the NHS. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Future Science OA supports early career researchers, announces its APC discount options |
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Future Science OA, the Gold (CC-BY) open access journal from Future Science Group, has announced its Article Processing Charge (APC) discounting options. Early Career Researchers, who are within the first 5 years of their career, will be eligible for a 50 percent discount on articles where they appear as the corresponding author. Peer reviewers who have submitted timely, constructive peer reviews, will be eligible for a 10 percent discount. Additionally, previous authors will be eligible for a loyalty discount of 50 percent on their subsequent articles. More Search for more news in this Category |
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International Society for Computational Biology and F1000Research announce partnership to produce ISCB Community Journal |
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The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and F1000Research have announced the formation of an innovative partnership to produce the ISCB Community Journal – a new, dedicated, digital channel on the F1000Research publishing platform. The ISCB Community Journal will be launched on F1000Research this summer to provide the ISCB’s growing membership and conference attendees with an affordable, open publishing platform for all research presented at official and affiliated ISCB conferences. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Portico and Pacific University Libraries announce preservation deal |
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Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Pacific University Libraries will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that these e-journals will be secure and available into the future. The e-journals, published under an open access model, will remain open access through Portico if a trigger event occurs. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier launches new journal, Journal of Commodity Markets |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new journal, Journal of Commodity Markets. The journal aims to publish high-quality research in all areas of economics and finance related to commodity markets. M. Prokopczuk from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany; B. Simkins from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA; and S. Westgaard from Norwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, will serve as Co-Editors of the journal. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ProQuest acquires Coutts Information Services and MyiLibrary from Ingram Content Group |
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ProQuest has signed an agreement to acquire Coutts Information Services from Ingram Content Group. With this acquisition, ProQuest seeks to add Coutts’ renowned expertise in collection development, broad catalogue of print and digital titles, and platforms MyiLibrary and OASIS to ProQuest’s vast selection of ebooks and innovative technology framework. More Search for more news in this Category |
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EBSCO and Baratz partnership to enhance library discovery in Spain |
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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced a new partnership with Spanish ILS editor, Baratz, to expand services to discovery customers in Spain and other markets, specifically Latin America and France. The collaboration will enable tightly-integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and Baratz’s flagship ILS, absysnet. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Wolters Kluwer rebrands Clinical Drug Information unit |
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer has announced the launch of a new website, social media identity, and overall rebrand of its Clinical Drug Information unit, positioning it as the single provider of aligned medication decision support solutions from its three industry-leading applications, Lexicomp®, Medi-Span®, and Facts & Comparisons®. The new website allows healthcare professionals and organisations to explore drug reference and drug data solutions. More Search for more news in this Category |
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UK’s first collaborative publishing consortium makes open access transition easier |
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Humanities scholars will now be able to benefit from a collaborative open access (OA) consortium agreement which means that authors will not have to pay to make their research open access. The publishing model – the first of its type in the UK – is being offered by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) following negotiations with Jisc. More Search for more news in this Category |
 European Food Safety Authority seeks publisher for Efsa Journal |
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a procurement procedure to identify a publishing partner for its main scientific publication, the EFSA Journal. The services required include editorial and production, hosting and marketing and the contract is valued at EUR 3 million for a period of up to six years. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Ex Libris acquires UK-based SaaS Platform provider, oMbiel |
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Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris has expanded its product portfolio by acquiring oMbiel, a UK-based SaaS Platform provider of mobile and portal solutions for higher education. campusMT, oMbiel’s flagship product, enables educational institutions to deliver services and information to prospective, enrolled, and graduating students, as well as other campus audiences, through a high-quality user experience. More Search for more news in this Category |
 The Charlesworth Group to support BRILL in China |
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The Charlesworth Group has announced the provision of China Liaison Services to academic publisher BRILL by way of dedicated marketing and sales support. This arrangement will see The Charlesworth Group provide dedicated specialist staffing and sales’ management activity, along with marketing support, to facilitate BRILL’s strategic goals for China. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Max Planck Digital Library study calculates redeployment of funds in Open Access |
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The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs. The study is investigating the question whether the previously used subscription budgets would be sufficient to fund the Open Access publication charges and thus bring about a complete transition of academic publishing. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Springer launches new textbook series, opens up new horizons for network science and engineering |
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STM publisher Springer has launched a new textbook series, ‘Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering.’ The new series capitalizes on this milestone and aims at designing, developing and promoting high-quality textbooks to fulfill the teaching and research needs of this discipline, and of related university curricula. More Search for more news in this Category |
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U.S. National Science Foundation selects Elsevier data to support its Science and Engineering Indicators |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Scopus bibliometric data, and LexisNexis patent data as primary source to support its biennial Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) report. The NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) will use Elsevier’s data in support of the next SEI report which will be released in 2016. More Search for more news in this Category |
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SAGE begins publishing Food and Nutrition Bulletin |
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Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it will begin publishing the Food and Nutrition Bulletin, one of the leading resources used by researchers, academics, nutrition policy makers and planners in over 125 countries to obtain the most current research and policy information related to nutrition in developing countries. Food and Nutrition Bulletin is the official publication of the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation and is an established resource for educators, researchers and policy influencers world-wide. More Search for more news in this Category |
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JoVE named finalist for 2015 SIIA CODiE Awards for Best Scholarly Publishing Information Solution |
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JoVE, creator and publisher of video solutions that increase productivity in scientific research and education, has announced that JoVE Journal was named a finalist for the 2015 SIIA CODiE Awards for Best Scholarly Publishing Information Solution. Finalists represent the information industry’s best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Emerald continues support for LIS community with cash prizes for three American Library Association awards |
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Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing is providing a cash prize to three different American Library Association (ALA) professional recognition and research fund awards. The prizes recognize outstanding contributions and publications and provide research grants to those in the field of librarianship. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam joins Brill Open Access Membership Program |
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Academic publisher Brill has announced that Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has decided to join Brill’s Open Access Membership Program. This program allows VU authors to submit their paper for Open Access publication in the Brill journal program with two options to choose from. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Elsevier collaborates with Friedrich-Althoff Consortium to create digital scientific literature infrastructure, ‘Archive of Berlin’ |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced its collaboration with Berlin’s Charité, the Humboldt University (Humboldt-Universität), the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität) and the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität), all part of the Friedrich-Althoff Consortium, to create a comprehensive digital scientific literature infrastructure, ‘Archive of Berlin’, aimed to further strengthen Berlin as a central location for research. Through the agreement, all four universities will have access to ScienceDirect, granting them access to more than 2000 scientific publications of Elsevier. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The Optical Society redesigns content platform with enhanced ease of use, search and discoverability of content |
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The Optical Society has transformed its publishing enterprise with the launch of its redesigned content platform, OSA Publishing. The new platform, which replaces OSA’s Optics InfoBase, incorporates the latest publishing technologies and web best practices to ensure that the optics and photonics community can easily and effectively search and discover the highest quality content being published in the field. More Search for more news in this Category |
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EBSCO Information Services’ Alumni editions help libraries meet information needs of post-college professionals |
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Colleges and universities looking to provide research support to their alumni can now offer graduates access to new resources from EBSCO Information Services. Three new alumni edition databases will help libraries continue to play a role in the success of their students, even after they graduate. More Search for more news in this Category |
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NLM announces funding opportunity for small projects |
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced a funding opportunity for small projects to improve access to disaster medicine and public health information for health care professionals, first responders and others that play a role in health-related disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Beginning in 2011, the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center has funded 21 of these disaster outreach projects. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ARL joins new Re:Create coalition to promote balanced copyright |
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ARL joined US technology companies, trade associations, and civil society organisations in the launch of Re:Create, a coalition that promotes balanced copyright policy. A balanced copyright system depends on limitations and exceptions, such as fair use. As technology advances, it is imperative that the copyright law is responsive to these changes, balancing the interests of creators of copyrighted information and products with the interests of users of those products. More Search for more news in this Category |
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PCG announces new representation agreement with Japanese medical publisher Meteo |
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Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology plc, has signed a new sales representation deal with Japanese medical publisher, Meteo, to help expand the reach of its Medical Online-E information service into North and South America. Hosting around 800 medical journals, over 1.3 million articles as well as references and abstracts, Medical Online-E is designed to deliver the very best Japanese medical content and expertise to English speaking audiences around the world. More Search for more news in this Category |
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IFLA Journal Editorial Committee call for nominations |
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The IFLA Professional Committee is calling for up to three members to join the IFLA Journal Editorial Committee, for a term of four years (once renewable) from 2015-2019. IFLA Journal is an international peer-reviewed journal, publishing research-based articles that impact and enrich professional practice. More Search for more news in this Category |
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 New Science Europe principles on Open Access Publisher Services |
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Members of Science Europe – comprising 50 major public research organisations in Europe – adopted four new common principles on Open Access Publisher Services at its General Assembly meeting in Vienna on April 15. Science Europe is an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations in 27 countries, established in 2011, to promote the collective interest of its members and to foster collaboration between them. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Emergency Access Initiative activated to support healthcare professionals responding to earthquake in Nepal |
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) has been activated to support healthcare professionals working on the response to the earthquake in Nepal. The EAI is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text from more than 650 biomedical journals and more than 4,000 reference books and online databases to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Thieme Publishers Rio named official book publisher for Funda?ão Otorrinolaringologia |
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Medical and scientific publisher Thieme Publishers Rio (TPR) has signed on to be the official book publisher for Fundação Otorrinolaringologia (FORL), the largest otorhinolaryngology funding agency in Brazil. TPR currently publishes International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, the official journal of Fundação Otorrinolaringologia. The first book published under this new partnership is Tratado de Implante Coclear e Proteses Implantáveis by Dr. Ricardo Bento. More Search for more news in this Category |
 China National Science and Technology Library approves purchase and hosting of Karger Journal Archive Collection |
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The China National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) has approved the purchase and hosting of the Karger Journal Archive Collection. It comprises journal issues from 1893 to 1997. The licence covers nationwide access for academic and non-commercial organisations in mainland China. More Search for more news in this Category |
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O’Reilly Media, Inc. and dpunkt.verlag launch media partnership for German-language technology content |
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O’Reilly Media, Inc. and dpunkt.verlag have launched a media partnership for German-language technology content. Beginning July 1, 2015, dpunkt will develop and distribute O’Reilly’s German-language publishing program, support existing German-language O’Reilly books and, going forward, release new titles under the O’Reilly brand. More Search for more news in this Category |
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American Academy of Neurology unveils new online medical journal – Neurology Genetics |
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The American Academy of Neurology has launched a new online medical journal – Neurology Genetics. The journal seeks to provide neurologists and scientists interested in applying findings from basic science with peer- reviewed articles, editorials and reviews to enhance patient care, education, and clinical research. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Lorraine Estelle appointed new COUNTER Project Director |
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Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) has appointed Lorraine Estelle as project director, effective summer 2015. Estelle will succeed Peter Shepherd, who will retire this summer, after 13 years as COUNTER director. More Search for more news in this Category |
