Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 21, 2014
NPG and Palgrave Macmillan make data from Author Insights survey publicly available as part of Open Access Week
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of Open Access Week. NPG and Palgrave Macmillan are making this anonymised data available in order to achieve greater understanding between authors, funders and publishers, particularly with regard to open access.
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Elsevier publishes new books on natural disasters and hazards
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of four new books on natural disasters and hazards, including three from the newly developed Hazards and Disasters series edited by Dr. John F. Shroder. The Hazards and Disasters book series has been developed to provide researchers and professionals with an understanding of the latest scientific discoveries for assessment and prevention.
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Southern Adventist University selects EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the Southern Adventist University in Tennessee has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as its discovery service. Southern Adventist University was recently ranked in the top 30 Best Colleges by U.S. News and World Report for Regional Colleges in the South.
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Global Spine Journal and Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal to merge into a single publication in 2015
Medical and scientific publishing house Thieme Publishing Group has announced that a number of major changes will be made to the AOSpine journals in 2015. The editors of Global Spine Journal and Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal, Dr. Wang and Dr. Chapman, have announced that the titles will merge into a single publication in 2015 and will publish under the name Global Spine Journal.
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GBI-Genios’ wiso collections now indexed and discoverable via Central Index of Ex Libris Primo
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that all journals and the majority of reference databases hosted on GBI-Genios’ wiso-net platform have been indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources, making the content easily discoverable via the Ex Libris Primo discovery service. In the coming months, the e-books hosted on wiso-net will also be accessible via Primo.
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UBM Tech names James Connolly as Editor-in-Chief and David Wagner as Community Editor of analytics and big data website and community All Analytics
Business information provider UBM Tech has named accomplished journalists James Connolly and David Wagner to lead the editorial team for the three-year-old website and online community All Analytics. Connolly, who was named editor-in-chief, previously had been executive editor on A2 and editor of other UBM Tech properties such as Storage Acceleration, The Enterprise Cloud Site, Big Data Republic, and The Future of Work Enabled.
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Holiday Notice
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on October 22, 2014 on account of Local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Thursday, October 23, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the October 21st issue.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 20, 2014
International Open Access Week shines spotlight on increasing the impact of scientific research
Hundreds of events will take place across the globe to highlight the power that Open Access has to increase the impact of scientific and scholarly research during the seventh annual Open Access Week taking place from October 20-26, 2014. This year’s theme of ‘Generation Open’ highlights the important role that students and early career researchers play as advocates for change, both in the short-term through institutional and governmental policy, and also as the future of the Academy upon whom the ultimate success of the Open Access movement depends.
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Access to finance biggest obstacle for innovation, says TISP, Frankfurt Book Fair survey
The EU-funded network Technology and Innovation for Smart Publishing (TISP), in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair, recently conducted a qualitative survey among European book publishers. The survey revealed that innovation is of great importance to book publishers. Almost three quarters (77%) of the over 120 respondents to a Europe-wide qualitative survey said they are developing new products and services.
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SAGE set to publish Healthcare Management Forum starting in 2015
Academic publisher SAGE and the Canadian College of Health Leaders have announced that SAGE will begin publishing the College’s journal, Healthcare Management Forum (HMF), with the first edition in January 2015. The journal publishes articles on leading practices related to health leadership and management, including recent research, new technology and professional practices from health leaders’ perspectives.
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Cegedim Board approves IMS Health’s offer to purchase Cegedim’s Information Solutions and CRM businesses
Information and technology services company IMS Health has announced that following successful completion of works council information and consultation requirements in certain countries, the Cegedim Board of Directors has approved IMS Health’s offer to acquire certain Cegedim information solutions and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) businesses. A definitive purchase agreement has been executed.
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Brill launches Brill Open Social Sciences
International scholarly publisher Brill has announced the launch of its new broad open access journal in the social sciences. Brill Open Social Sciences – An International Journal is now open for submissions. Submitted papers are subject to double-blind peer review and accepted only if methodologically sound and relevant.
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Information Today, Inc. webinar focuses on how the discovery ecosystem involves much more than the single search box
A recent Information Today, Inc. webinar, sponsored by ProQuest, discussion focused on how the discovery ecosystem involves much more than the single search box and the content that libraries make available to their users. Attention focused on the increasing role that librarians can play by embedding themselves within the researcher workflow, along with contextual guidance and new tools to help researchers at the point of need.
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OCLC Research, CNI and the George Washington University Libraries to co-sponsor Evolving Scholarly Record workshop
The Evolving Scholarly Record workshop, co-sponsored by OCLC Research, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the George Washington University Libraries, builds on the framework presented in the OCLC Research report, The Evolving Scholarly Record. Scheduled for December 10, 2014, at Washington, DC, this is the second in a series of Evolving Scholarly Record workshops. The first was held in Amsterdam on June 10, 2014.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Virtual Reality Research — Some Early Problems with Data Reanalysis and Risks of Open Data); Andrew Farke (Which (non-open access) journals can paleontologists access?); Bonnie Swoger (Correcting the scientific record: An introduction to retractions); Joseph Esposito (Revisiting Demand-driven Acquisitions); and Ben Lee (Public libraries play a central role in providing access to data and ensuring the freedom of digital knowledge). 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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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 17, 2014
Elsevier launches Mosby’s Home Health Care
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the availability of Mosby’s Home Health Care. This resource combines trusted home healthcare nursing content with convenient competency management functionality to provide a single comprehensive resource for home healthcare nurses, nurse educators and other home care professionals.
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Brill launches new OA journal – Brill Open Biology
Academic publisher Brill has announced the launch of a new open access journal in the field of biology, Brill Open Biology-An International Journal. The journal is now open for submissions. With his team of section editors, Editor-in-Chief Michael Schmitt, of the University of Greifswald, Germany, is aiming for the highest scholarly standards.
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EBSCO Information hires former Swets employees in the UK to help customers transitioning to EBSCO
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is opening a second office in the United Kingdom and has hired a number of former Swets employees to help customers transitioning to EBSCO as their subscription agent. EBSCO believes that this investment in infrastructure and staffing will provide libraries with the confidence to work with EBSCO during this critical renewals phase, and into the future.
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The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group now includes British Journal of General Practice from Royal College of General Practitioners
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) recently joined The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) and will add its well-reviewed journal British Journal of General Practice to the ISPG offerings. As part of the new agreement, ISPG clients worldwide will have access to the authoritative content found in the British Journal of General Practice.
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Cambridge Journals and the Paleontological Society announce publishing partnership
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the Paleontological Society have announced a new publishing partnership for the latter’s journals. Beginning in 2015, Cambridge Journals will be publishing the Journal of Paleontology and Paleobiology.
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McGraw-Hill Education releases Neurology Collection, the latest addition to the Access family of online medical resources
McGraw-Hill Education has announced a new approach to neurology reference, research, and curricular instruction with the release of the Neurology Collection, an online tool designed to help neurology students, residents, and program directors establish a solid base for learning and deliver indispensable support in certification and recertification. It is the most-recent addition to the Access family of medical resources found in nearly 90 percent of US medical schools.
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redOrbit.com partners with iCopyright to protect, promote, syndicate and monetise content
Science Matters Media LLC’s redOrbit.com has announced a new partnership with Seattle-based iCopyright to provide an intelligent copyright system for the distribution of redOrbit’s digital content. iCopyright will work with redOrbit.com to protect, promote, syndicate and monetize its content – from news and editorial articles, to blogs and independent creative works.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 16, 2014
New Google Scholar study examines the growing impact of non-elite journals
The world of scholarly communication has witnessed immense changes over the last decade and Google Scholar has been a part of the change. To mark its 10th anniversary, Scholar will explore the impact of these changes – looking at how scholarship and citation patterns have changed as publications and archives moved online and comprehensive relevance-ranked search became available to everyone. As the next article in the 10th anniversary series, a study examining the evolution of the impact of non-elite journals has been published in arXiv.
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Elsevier provides free access to ClinicalKey to support healthcare professionals in West Africa battling the Ebola outbreak
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it will provide free access to its primary online clinical information and reference tool, ClinicalKey, to support healthcare professionals in West Africa battling the Ebola outbreak. ClinicalKey provides evidence-based clinical answers drawn from the single largest body of clinical content available, including Medline, over 600 journals, over 1,100 books, drug information, guidelines, and patient education.
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Scientific American launches Spanish-language website
Science magazine Scientific American has launched ScientificAmerican.com/espanol, which will provide Spanish-language online readers with authoritative insights and news about the latest developments that matter in science, technology and biomedicine. ScientificAmerican.com/espanol features original reporting, as well as translated stories from Scientific American’s English-language edition and its editions in Spain, Investigación y Ciencia and Mente y Cerebro.
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PLOS appoints new Chief Editors for PLOS Biology
Open-access journal PLOS (Public Library of Science) has announced the appointment of Dr. Chris Ferguson and Dr. Emma Ganley as joint Chief Editors to PLOS Biology, effective October 13. Both are based in the UK.
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University of Hawai?i at Manoa to celebrate Open Access Week, October 20–27
The University of Hawai?i at Manoa will be celebrating Open Access Week, October 20–27. Throughout the week, the UH Manoa community is invited to learn about open educational resources at the Outreach College, to navigate the impact of copyright on teaching and research, and how to contribute to Wikipedia. Interested parties may visit the event website for the full schedule of events.
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Credo announces compliance with NISO Open Discovery initiative
Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, has announced its conformance with, and endorsement of, the recommendations of the National Information Standards Organization’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), making Credo the first reference content provider to do so. Credo’s compliance demonstrates the company’s advocacy for the unique, valuable role that reference plays in research, as well as its commitment to supporting industry standards and best practices in delivering innovative products and services to libraries and their users.
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Corrigendum
This is with reference to the news alert titled “Leading scientific journals from Europe and the US accused of ‘political’ rejections” covered in the News Section of Knowledgespeak (dated 14, October 2014). Readers may please note that the news article has been revised due to ambiguity reasons. The revised version of the news article is here.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 15, 2014
John Wiley & Sons’ new online tool simplifies management of open access funds for institutions and funders
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of the Wiley Open Access Account Dashboard, an online tool that simplifies management of open access funds for institutions and funders. The Account Dashboard is now available for all Wiley Open Access Account holders.
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Jenny Kühne takes over rights and licensing at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that as of September 1, 2014, Jenny Kühne has been responsible for marketing the Frankfurt Book Fair’s RightsLink licensing service for online permissions. In addition, she will be responsible for the networking and further development of the previously existing rights activities of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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SAGE extends partnership with Load2Learn scheme delivered by RNIB and Dyslexia Action
Academic publisher SAGE has announced an extended partnership with the Load2Learn initiative delivered by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and Dyslexia Action to provide books in an accessible format for the visually impaired and print disabled. This partnership will enable all registered users access to over 2,000 SAGE books from across disciplines.
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Maney Publishing announces new editorial team for Materials Science and Technology
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced the appointment of Professor Harry Bhadeshia, Dr John Francis and Dr Andy Howe as co-Editors of Materials Science and Technology (MST), the flagship journal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). This new editorial team takes over from Professor J F Knott OBE, University of Birmingham, UK, who is standing down as Editor after twelve years.
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SCOAP3 webinar to discuss status of the initiative and future plans
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) recently marked the publication of its 3333rd article. The Consortium will host an online conversation on November 18th to discuss its first months of operation.
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Katya Pereyaslavska named ARL Visiting Program Officer for accessibility and universal design
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced the appointment of Katya Pereyaslavska as a visiting program officer (VPO) for accessibility and universal design, effective October 1, 2014. Pereyaslavska is the Scholars Portal Accessibility Librarian at the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL), a position she has held for two years.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 14, 2014
Thomson Reuters and CCC collaboration to advance OA publishing
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to streamline the Open Access publishing workflow with an integrated solution for article processing charges (APCs) through ScholarOne Manuscripts. CCC’s RightsLink for Open Access will integrate into ScholarOne Manuscripts, providing authors with a secure, end-to-end solution for Open Access article submission and peer review, including the management of APCs.
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Leading scientific journals from Europe and the US accused of ‘political’ rejections
Leading scientific journals from Europe and the United States have started to groundlessly reject papers written by Russian scientists and postgraduates, according to some well-known researchers of the Russian Academy of Sciences and publishers of physics and chemistry magazines. According to some scientists, many Western journals have started to send back papers written by Russian scientists and graduates without conducting any review in recent months.
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Altmetric launch enhanced Mendeley demographic data
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric LLP has announced the addition of enhanced Mendeley reader demographics data. This data is collated and displayed on the Altmetric details pages, where users can explore all of the original mentions of each article or other research output and see a breakdown of the geographical, disciplinary and professional status of users storing the article in their Mendeley library.
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University of Rijeka in Croatia selects EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the University of Rijeka Library in Croatia has implemented EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). Seamless implementation, a variety of customisation options and EBSCO’s commitment to service led the library to choose EDS.
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Thieme Chemistry relaunches website with new design and improved accessibility
Thieme Chemistry has relaunched its website for chemists. Along with a new design, the expanded http://www.thieme-chemistry.com features improved technology and an optimised user-friendly interface. Users now enjoy even faster access to the comprehensive content as well as Thieme Group products for chemists.
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SAGE launches Educational Research Methods, powered by Acrobatiq
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of Educational Research Methods, powered by Acrobatiq. Designed for undergraduate and graduate students, the courseware provides students with a thorough understanding of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods as well as action research.
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Baker & Taylor and James Bennett chosen as primary suppliers of library materials to Wellington City Libraries, New Zealand
Baker & Taylor, a worldwide distributor of digital and print books, along with its Australian wholly-owned subsidiary James Bennett, have been chosen as the primary suppliers of library materials to Wellington City Libraries, New Zealand. The agreement between Baker & Taylor/James Bennett and Wellington City Council offers all New Zealand public libraries an opportunity to sign onto a Participating Agency Agreement (PAA) and receive the terms and services outlined in the contract.
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by rheyer Posted on October 13, 2014
Nobel Laureates’ publications now open for free access in SPIE Digital Library
Research papers published by six 2014 Nobel Prize recipients whose accomplishments in physics and chemistry have been enabled by photonics are being made freely available in the SPIE Digital Library through the end of 2014. The innovations recognized for this year’s Nobel prizes in Physics and in Chemistry utilize light-based science and technology in the development of sustainable LED lighting, smart phone and computer displays, and more accurate medical diagnostics and treatments, and have illuminated the path to new areas of research.
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ProQuest enhances Intota Assessment collection analysis with new Title Linking functionality
Academic libraries building their collections with core titles from Resources for College Libraries (RCL) can now stretch their collection budget further, making smarter acquisition and deselection decisions. Using the enhanced Recommendations and Deselection reports in IntotaTM Assessment, libraries can simply compare by subject area their collection to RCL core titles, quickly determine a match to their current holdings, and easily identify alternative formats in their collection or in market.
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Dr. Gregory Dorn named president of Hearst Health
Hearst Corporation has announced that Dr. Gregory Dorn has been named president of Hearst Health, the healthcare division within Hearst Business Media. The appointment was announced by Steven R. Swartz, president and CEO of Hearst Corporation, and Richard P. Malloch, president, Hearst Business Media, and is effective immediately.
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ARL membership elects ARL Board of Directors 2014–2015
Deborah Jakubs, the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University, began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on October 8, 2014, during the ARL Membership Meeting in Washington, DC. Jakubs succeeds Carol Pitts Diedrichs, vice provost and director of university libraries, the Ohio State University, as ARL president.
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New AERA open access journal now accepting article submissions
AERA Open, a new scholarly journal from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), is now accepting article submissions. The publication is among the first open access journals to be launched by a scholarly social science society. As with AERA’s other six journals, SAGE will publish AERA Open on behalf of AERA.
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Rasenberger to succeed Paul Aiken as Authors Guild Executive Director
Mary Rasenberger, a six-year Copyright Office and Library of Congress veteran and partner at the media law firm Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams and Sheppard, will succeed Paul Aiken as Authors Guild Executive Director on November 3rd. Rasenberger’s selection follows a national search by a committee of the Authors Guild Council, the Guild’s governing board. Her candidacy received the unanimous support of the Council. Aiken will work for the Guild as a consultant for the next two years.
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Ingram and Azymut partner to enhance content distribution in Poland
Ingram Content Group Inc. is expanding its print-on-demand (POD) and distribution reach to Poland through a Lightning Source Inc. Global Connect alliance with Azymut, a media publishing and distribution group in Poland. Ingram’s Global Connect program grows the reach of physical content for publishers beyond Ingram’s current channels to new markets through a network of book manufacturers and distributors with established local retail relationships.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (More Data, More Problems — Lessons from the Limitations of Google Flu Trends); Kevin L. Smith (Lessons from Swets: Libraries Need Subscription Security | Peer to Peer Review); Stephanie Koons (How many scholarly papers are on the Web? At least 114 million, professor finds); Todd A Carpenter (Trust, Privacy, Big Data, and e-Book Readers); and Curt Rice (Wall Street analysts say open access has failed due to lack of focus, but their analysis might help it succeed). 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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by rheyer Posted on October 10, 2014
Day 3: Frankfurt Book Fair highlights
The fifth edition of StoryDrive will celebrate the heroes in and behind the story. Speakers include Cyber-Philosopher Alexander Bard, Publisher Michael Bhaskar, Best-Selling Author Reif Larsen, script writer Stefano Bises and many more. Perspectives in Education: “Across Boundaries – an Education Melting Pot”: CEOs of various international educational publishing houses discussed the changes in the education business and how new features are developing and getting mixed up with the existing ones.
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Nature Publishing Group and the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University launch new OA journal – npj Microgravity
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group and the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have announced the launch of npj Microgravity, a new open access journal. The journal is specifically dedicated to publishing research that enables space exploration and research that is enabled by spaceflight. It will also publish research utilizing ground-based models of spaceflight.
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EBSCO introduces Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Internacional
EBSCO Information Services has announced that a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments in both Spanish and English is now available. Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Internacional contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within diverse areas. Designed to serve the increasing needs of diverse populations, PPE provides a ready reference for practitioners, researchers, teachers, librarians, and all professionals who work directly with Spanish-speaking clients or train those who do.
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Royal Society Open Science launches on HighWire
The Royal Society has announced the launch of Royal Society Open Science, a new open access journal publishing high quality original research on the basis of objective peer review. The journal will publish original research articles that are scientifically sound, leaving judgement of importance and impact to the reader.
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SCELC selects ProQuest Intota Assessment for use in Shared Print project to make evidence-based retention decisions
The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) has initiated a collection analysis project to gain insight on collection overlap and usage as a basis for establishing a sustainable shared collections program among its members. SCELC chose ProQuest Intota Assessment for comprehensive analysis of more than 4.5 million monographs across nine member libraries participating in the pilot project.
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Plymouth University collaborates with Vital Source Technologies to launch largest e-textbook programme in the UK
Plymouth University has announced a collaboration with Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, to provide textbooks for their institution-wide digital initiative, which is the largest e-textbook programme ever undertaken in the UK. Plymouth University’s e-textbook programme, launched this month, has already provided more than 30,000 e-textbooks to the University’s students.
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National Library of the Netherlands in deal with OCLC to add four key collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat
The National Library of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has entered into an agreement with OCLC to add four important collections of digitised resources from Dutch-speaking countries to WorldCat for discovery of these valuable resources worldwide. The extensive and historically significant data comprise large numbers of digitised books, journals, newspapers and parliamentary papers, aggregated from libraries across the Netherlands.
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NIH invests about $32 million to increase utility of biomedical research data
The National Institutes of Health recently announced grants to develop new strategies to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets, often referred to as Big Data. These NIH multi-institute awards constitute an initial investment of nearly $32 million in fiscal year 2014 by NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, which is projected to have a total investment of nearly $656 million through 2020, pending available funds.
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by rheyer Posted on October 9, 2014
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 – Day 2 highlights
On the second day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, EDP Open, the Open access arm of EDP Sciences, released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open Access amongst learned society publishers. The survey was answered by 33 Learned societies and results were further supplemented by a focus group held at the annual UKSG meeting in April 2104.
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Springer overhauls SpringerMaterials to make the new site more user friendly
STM publisher Springer’s signature materials database – SpringerMaterials – has got a total overhaul to make the new site more nimble and user friendly. Changes are far more than cosmetic as the entire site has been migrated to the same technology as the publisher’s flagship platform, SpringerLink.
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Wolters Kluwer Health, Thieme announce big wins at 2014 BMA Awards
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) textbooks and digital guides were honoured with 12 prizes at the 2014 BMA Medical Book Awards. Sponsored by the British Medical Association (BMA), the annual Medical Book Awards are recognised as among the most prestigious and influential in medical publishing. Thieme won the First Prize in the Oncology category and Highly Commended in the Radiology and Surgical Specialties categories.
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Gale signs new publishers, increases STEM content in Virtual Reference Library
New content covering popular healthcare and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics is now available on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), the e-book platform offered by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. The signing of publishers Taylor & Francis, Mitchell Lane, HCPro and World Scientific combined will add about 750 e-books to GVRL, bringing the total number of available titles on the platform to 15,000 from over 150 publishing partners.
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Infotrieve and National Research Council of Canada extend information delivery and library services partnership
Infotrieve, Inc. has announced that it will extend its current partnership with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to exclusively provide information delivery and library services to the Canadian and international research communities for an additional two years. Through this relationship, Infotrieve will continue to provide a multi-faceted set of services for NRC, including both library management, as well as content access via the award winning Mobile Library technology platform.
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Maney set to publish Ship Technology Research
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced that it will publish Ship Technology Research – Schiffstechnik, on behalf of the University of Duisburg-Essen, from 2015. Established in 1952 as Schiffstechnik, the journal enables engineers and researchers to learn the latest developments in research, design, manufacture, and the operation and maintenance, of ships and offshore structures.
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Impelsys unveils iPublishCentral 6.0
Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys has announced iPublishCentral 6.0, the latest release of its digital publishing software. The 6.0 version is a mobile-focused initiative that allows publishers to offer their users, easy purchase, navigation, and search options direct from handheld devices.
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Submissions open for The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2015
The London Book Fair (LBF), in association with The UK Publishers Association (The PA), has announced that submissions are now open for the LBF International Excellence Awards 2015. Entries for the awards need to be registered online via the LBF website by January 9, 2015. The shortlist will be announced in February 2015.
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Dr. Karri Holley named Editor of International Journal for Researcher Development
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the appointment of Dr. Karri Holley, University of Alabama (USA), as the new Editor of the International Journal for Researcher Development. Dr. Holley has held several leadership roles in national associations, including chair of the AERA Doctoral Education across the Disciplines SIG and is formerly a member of the program committees for both ASHE and AERA.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on October 8, 2014
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 begins
This year the Frankfurt Book Fair began with a very thought provoking conference organised by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) on October 7. Cathy Wolfe President & CEO, Medical Research, Wolters Kluwer, keynote speech began with an active programme on discussing the ways clinicians, nurses and other health professionals access and consume content on their various devices. On the first day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Rich Kobel from Scope e-Knowledge kicked off a very dynamic Hotspot session discussing the role of descriptive metadata & Controlled vocabularies in improving semantic linkages.
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CAS and Obiter Research collaborate to provide SciFinder to scientists at Obiter Research
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world’s authority for chemical information, has announced a collaboration with Obiter Research, a custom contract chemical research and manufacturing company. Under the deal, CAS will provide SciFinder, the choice for chemistry research, for the Obiter research staff, resuming their access to the most accurate, comprehensive and current source of chemical and related scientific information.
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Elsevier unveils Miller’s Anesthesia, 8th Edition
STM publisher Elsevier will unveil Miller’s Anesthesia, 8th Edition, a comprehensive two-volume medical reference book, at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2014, the American Society of Anesthesiology annual meeting in New Orleans, October 11-15. This go-to reference book provides an in-depth review of technical, scientific and clinical challenges ranging from fundamental principles to advanced subspecialty procedures.
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KLAS Clinical Decision Support report names ProVation Order Sets as overall best performer among order set solutions
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced that ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, was ranked by KLAS Research as having the best overall performance among order set solutions in its report, ‘CDS Order Sets and Care Plans 2014: Choosing the Best Option.’ This marks the third time ProVation Order Sets has achieved top ranking in the annual report on the clinical decision support solutions market.
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MyHeritage partners with EBSCO Information Services to bring MyHeritage to libraries and educational institutions worldwide
MyHeritage, the popular family history network, has announced a significant expansion into the institutional education market, with the launch of a dedicated, high-performance family history service for institutions and the signing of a strategic partnership with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to distribute it exclusively. The new, state-of-the-art MyHeritage Library Edition empowers people to discover more about their family history and the lives led by their ancestors.
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Three Scholarly Publishers implement CCC’s RightsLink for OA platform and Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that scholarly publishers De Gruyter, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Publishing, and Maney Publishing have chosen to automate the collection and management of author charges by leveraging the integration between RightsLink for Open Access and Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager. The integration of Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager and RightsLink for Open Access provides scholarly publishers with a seamless way to collect article processing charges (APCs) from within the Editorial Manager workflow.
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Mobile phone reading on the rise in the US and UK, says Publishing Technology study
An increasing number of people are now using their mobile phones to read ebooks, a survey by Publishing Technology has revealed. The survey of 3,000 consumers across the US and UK found that 43 percent have read an ebook, or part of an ebook, on their handsets, and that 66 per cent (59 per cent UK/ 72 per cent US) of mobile phone book readers currently read more on their phones than they did last year.
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Annual Reviews announces new journal – Annual Review of Virology
Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has announced the launch of Annual Review of Virology. This journal will capture and describe the most important advances in our understanding of viruses of animals, plants, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protozoa. The journal will be edited by Professor Lynn W. Enquist (Henry L. Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University).
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