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Elsevier adds five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect
STM publisher Elsevier has added five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect. The Legacy Collection consists of digitised, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books. The new subject areas are arts and humanities; computer science; economics, econometrics and finance; immunology and microbiology; and mathematics. In addition, there are newly digitised books in the engineering and the biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology collections.
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Wolters Kluwer Health adds new component to Lippincott Advisor that addresses Sentinel Events
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has added a new component to Lippincott Advisor that addresses Sentinel Events and is designed to help nurses step-up their role in helping to reduce incidence of these adverse patient outcomes in hospitals and other institutions. This new feature provides a comprehensive decision-support resource that details what nurses and clinicians caring for patients at the bedside can do when a Sentinel Event occurs.
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SUNYConnect implements EBSCO Discovery Service
SUNYConnect, a New York library system of public institutions of higher education, has implemented EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) as its discovery solution provider. SUNYConnect is an entity of the State University of New York (SUNY) and the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States. Of the 60 SUNYConnect institutions, 51 have opted to implement EDS and initial feedback has been very positive.
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McGraw-Hill Professional eBook Library now available via YBP Library Services GOBI-3 platform
McGraw-Hill Professional (MHP), a division of McGraw-Hill Education, is partnering with YBP Library Services (YBP), the academic division of Baker & Taylor, to make its eBook Library collections available through GOBI3. This will enable librarians to integrate MHP’s eBook Library collections into their existing selection processes and/or approval plans.
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Thieme Chemistry releases Science of Synthesis 4.0.1
Thieme Chemistry has announced the release of Science of Synthesis 4.0.1 – the only full-text resource for methods and experimental procedures in synthetic organic chemistry. The new version, available as of October 6th, 2014, offers a range of new features as well as 13 new content volumes covering topics such as Cross Coupling and Heck-Type Reactions and Multicomponent Reactions. New features include improved text-search capabilities and a new non-Java chemical structure editor.
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ProQuest and The Economist Intelligence Unit team up to create first online archive of EIU’s global economic analyses
ProQuest and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) have teamed to create the first online archive of the EIU’s global economic analyses – a single source for unbiased, comprehensive reports and statistical data on approximately 200 countries. Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports Archive will combine ProQuest’s expertise in digitisation, search technology and data manipulation to make nearly a half-century of the EIU’s acclaimed Country Reports and Quarterly Economic Reviews accessible and searchable on the ProQuest platform, improving research outcomes in history, political science, international studies and economics.
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Tyler Walters named SHARE’s founding director
Tyler Walters, dean of university libraries at Virginia Tech, has been named SHARE’s founding director, beginning on October 13, 2014. Walters has been involved integrally in SHARE since its inception, serving as co-chair of the SHARE steering group for the past year. The directorship is a two-year term appointment, during which Walters will continue to serve as dean of libraries at Virginia Tech.
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Western Michigan University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Western Michigan University has selected the Alma library management service and the Primo discovery and delivery solution to provide unified resource management and unified resource discovery. Alma and Primo replace multiple homegrown and commercial systems including the ProQuest Summon discovery service.
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Cenveo Publisher Services named finalist for the New England Publishing Collaboration Awards
Cenveo Publisher Services is one of 10 finalists for the prestigious New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards. Bookbuilders of Boston established the Award and supporting event to honour excellence in the new publishing and information economy. Based on an embrace of disruption and the need to transform the traditional value chain of content creation, the NEPCo Awards showcase results achieved by two or more organisations working as partners.
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Elsevier signs on to CCC’s Republication Service
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has announced that STM publisher Elsevier has signed on to CCC’s Republication Service to simplify the process of negotiating broad republication permissions for its Science & Technology and Health books and journals. With the addition of Elsevier, CCC now offers republication rights on more than one million works.
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New whitepaper offers recommendations to improve usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries
A group of professionals from libraries, content providers and OCLC have published ‘Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access,’ a white paper that identifies data quality issues in the content supply chain and offers practical recommendations for improved usage, discovery and access of e-content in libraries. The white paper offers solutions for the efficient exchange of high-quality data among libraries, data suppliers and service providers.
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IOS Press selects Semantico to design new journals and book platform
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd. has been selected by IOS Press, an independent, international STM publishing house, to design and deliver a new publishing platform to support their growing collection of STM books and journals. IOS Press publishes more than 100 international journals and approximately 75 book titles each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences.
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Dental Science & Surgery journals celebrate Open Access Week
Open Access publisher OMICS Group Incorporation invites researchers, authors, medical practitioners, academicians, and students across the globe to participate in the ‘Open Access Week’ by actively contributing their research outcome as articles to OMICS Group Dental and Surgery Journals from October 20-26, 2014. Oral and Dental Hygiene group journals focus specially on the core and specialised areas of dentistry which deal with periodontology, endodontic, dental surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, dental disease and cure, operative dentistry, and prosthodontics.
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PCG appoints Erika Valenti as Global Sales Director
Sales, marketing and research consultancy Publishers Communication Group (PCG) has announced that it has hired Erika Valenti as its new Global Sales Director, effective October 1. Based in the Boston office, Erika will lead the PCG’s Content Sales team of dedicated publisher representatives in the US and regional sales offices in the UK, Brazil and India.
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Ingram Content Group Inc. adds new tools to its CoreSource digital asset management platform
Ingram Content Group Inc. has added new tools to its CoreSource® digital asset management platform offered through Lightning Source Inc., that give publishers the ability to manage and distribute print book metadata and files worldwide. Publishers that use the CoreSource platform for e-book distribution can now distribute print metadata to retailers, library suppliers and book discovery partners.
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The Yankalilla Library marks final SAPLN member to go live on SirsiDynix Symphony
SirsiDynix has announced that the final member of the South Australian Public Library Network (SAPLN) is prepared to go live with SirsiDynix Symphony. Yankalilla will mark the 77th SAPLN site to go live since the consortium’s Symphony implementation began in 2012. With a complete Symphony integration— and with some sites running on two databases or through multiple branches—SAPLN will include circulation materials from 80 databases, 159 sites, and over four million items.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (When a Journal Sinks, Should the Editors Go Down with the Ship?); Phil Ciciora (Academic journals should adopt nonprofit publishing model, expert says); Wayne Bivens-Tatum (The Mess of Ebooks | Peer to Peer Review); Michael Clarke (Peak Subscription); and David Budtz Pedersen (Overhyped and concentrated investments in research funding are leading to unsustainable science bubbles). 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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Facing up to the challenges of education and culture policy – Education at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Digitisation and globalisation have made it necessary to rethink our education and cultural policies. Technology companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google are investing more and more in educational activities, while trends such as massive open online courses (MOOCs) are bringing into question the need for classrooms and face-to-face exchanges with teachers. This year, the Frankfurt Book Fair Literacy Campaign – LitCam and the Frankfurt Book Fair have invited a number of education experts to analyse these trends, and to attempt some predictions about the future of the education sector.
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Elsevier releases Pure 5.1, makes Elsevier Research Intelligence tools Pure and SciVal interoperable
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the release of Pure 5.1, an enhanced version of its leading research information management system, and part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio of integrated tools and services. The release of Pure 5.1 improves its benchmark and research impact analysis functionalities through deep integration with SciVal.
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EBSCO Information Services releases Serials Price Projection for 2015
The 2015 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) advises that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries are expected to be in the range of 5 to 7 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 the upcoming renewals season.
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Jisc announces new initiatives to enable safe and secure sharing of medical research data
Jisc is enabling researchers across the UK to safely and securely share health data to progress their research with a collaborative initiative. This initiative is showcasing how the UK’s research and education network, Janet, provided by Jisc, can offer additional controls and safeguards for researchers working with sensitive data.
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Springer and Social Sciences Academic Press announce co-publishing agreement for new book series
STM publisher Springer and Social Sciences Academic Press (China) are launching a new English-language book series called Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. The new co-publishing agreement will be officially announced at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair by Prof. Peilin Li, Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Dr. Heinz Weinheimer, Executive Vice President of Springer Science+Business Media; and Jihui Cai, Marketing Director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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NSF grants $1 million to MU to expand supercomputer equipment and expertise for big data analytics
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1 million in two grants to the University of Missouri to install a supercomputer enabling data-intensive research and education at MU in fields such as bioinformatics, geoinformatics, high performance computing and engineering applications. The grants also will fund the position of a cyberinfrastructure (CI) engineer at MU.
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Unbound Medicine launches major upgrade to uPubTM publishing platform
Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced a major upgrade to uPub, the digital content management and authoring module of the UnboundTM Platform. With this software release, Unbound Medicine adds a host of new features and tools to its online publishing technology, improving the experience of the authors, editors, project managers, and organisations.
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Eric Hines named new president of Ex Libris North America
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the appointment of Eric Hines as president of Ex Libris North America and a member of the Group’s executive management team. Hines joins Ex Libris after holding senior management positions for the last ten years at NICE Systems, a leading worldwide provider of intent-based solutions that capture and analyse customer interactions.
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UC Davis: National Center for Sustainable Transportation

UC Davis is honored to be leading the newly established National Center for Sustainable Transportation – a consortium of premier universities committed to advancing an environmentally sustainable transportation system through cutting-edge research, direct policy engagement, and education of our future leaders. The Center’s research will focus on:
Across all our research we will be identifying and evaluating best practices for institutional change.
Take a look at the Center’s full list of white papers and research projects!
In the latest GreenLight blog, the Center’s Director Susan Handy reflects on what the research is saying in regards to the effectiveness of various land use and transportation related strategies at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This review comes at an important time as California decides how to invest revenues from its Cap-and-Trade Program on projects that help people replace car trips with low-carbon transportation options. She will be talking more about these strategies on October 7 at an ARB research seminar.
Stay connected by signing up on the National Center’s email list!
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Thomson Reuters and Russia’s Scientific Electronic Library eLibrary.RU collaborate to showcase nation’s leading research in Web of Science
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Russia’s Scientific Electronic Library eLibrary.ru to make content from the Russian Science Citation Index accessible via the Web of Science. Under the initiative, content from the Russian Science Citation Index (1000 top-tier scholarly publications in Russia) will be made available as a new dataset on the Web of Science.
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Industry leaders to discuss top healthcare business issues at Elsevier Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Economics Conference 2014
STM publisher Elsevier will host a gathering of some of the industry’s most prominent healthcare leaders to discuss issues and trends impacting healthcare today and in the future. The Elsevier Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Economics Conference 2014 will take place in Clearwater Beach, Florida, from October 29-30, at the Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa.
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Springer collaborates with German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine to launch new OA journal – Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics
STM publisher Springer is collaborating with the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ) to publish a new open access journal Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics. The first articles have already been published and are freely available on the journal’s website at www.molcellped.com. The new international and interdisciplinary journal covers the results of innovative research in current molecular and cellular concepts in pediatrics.
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Saint Peter’s University selects integrated suite of ProQuest discovery services to meet research needs of its library users
ProQuest has announced that Saint Peter’s University will meet the research needs and expectations of its library users with an integrated suite of ProQuest discovery services – the Summon® discovery service, the 360 Link link resolver and Syndetic SolutionsTM. The addition of these services at Saint Peter’s library will ensure that its users can search across their collection to reliably access content, offering their researchers the most compelling discovery experience.
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OCLC introduces WorldCat Discovery API beta, offers libraries access to WorldCat and a central index representing aggregated e-resource collections
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced the beta availability of the new WorldCat Discovery API, which provides access for libraries to search and find resources in both WorldCat and a central index of article and e-book metadata that represent the wide range of resources libraries provide to their users. The WorldCat Discovery API exposes library collection data for items in WorldCat, including materials held by individual member libraries, consortia and libraries worldwide.
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Registrations now open for ARL seminar for new assessment professionals
Registration is now open for ‘Leading a Strategic Assessment Program in a Research Library: An ARL Seminar for Recently Appointed Assessment Professionals,’ to be held in Washington, DC, May 14-15, 2015. This two-day in-person event is designed for librarians and coordinators who are new to the roles and responsibilities of assessment.
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Vital Source and Metrodigi collaborate to enable production of interactive content
Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, and Metrodigi®, a cloud-based content creation software company, have announced a collaboration at the EDUCAUSE 2014. This collaboration provides educational publishers with a powerful end-to-end solution for the production and distribution of customisable, interactive digital products.
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De Gruyter offers access to all of its scholarly content to top Wikipedia editors
Academic publisher De Gruyter will give access to all of its scholarly content to 1.000 highly active Wikipedia editors and will allow them to use it for their encyclopedia research. The editors are offered the opportunity to read ebooks, journals and database entries on De Gruyter Online, when they write articles for Wikipedia.
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Wellcome Trust launches charity fund to support open access research publications
Six medical research charities recently launched the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to cover open access, article-processing charges. The Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) is a partnership between Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Campaign, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research and the Wellcome Trust to enable free and unrestricted access to the published outputs of the research we support.
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LIBER calls on European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science
On the eve of the closing of the European Consultation on Science 2.0, LIBER issued a statement both welcoming the Consultation as a step towards strengthening the competitiveness of European research, and calling on the European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science. Commenting on the position statement, LIBER President, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen called on all LIBER libraries to play their part in enabling Open Science.
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Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™ via EBSCO
The print index, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU), is now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955TM. EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston worked together to digitize the content and build the free database from the volumes originally published by the H.W. Wilson Company. This effort was made possible through a donation from the H.W. Wilson Foundation.
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BioMed Central and the University of Michigan in deal to publish open access journal Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
Open access publisher BioMed Central and the University of Michigan have announced an agreement to publish a new open access journal, Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is now open for submissions and will begin publishing in the first quarter of 2015. The journal is led by Editor-in-Chief, Meng H. Tan, Professor, Internal Medicine, in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes, at the University of Michigan.
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SAGE launches open access journal PLEURA to advance knowledge of pleural diseases
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of PLEURA, an open access journal publishing research on recent advances in pleural diseases. The journal will be published as the official journal of the International Society of Pleural Diseases. PLEURA will promote a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and management of pleural diseases.
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American Association of Critical-Care Nurses joins The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group, adds two AACN journals to ISPG offerings
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently joined The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) and will add two of AACN’s award-winning journals to the ISPG offerings – American Journal of Critical Care and Critical Care Nurse. As part of this new agreement, AACN offers select content to all participating ISPG clients worldwide.
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Austin Community College and McGraw-Hill Education unveil world’s largest adaptive
McGraw-Hill Education and Austin Community College unveiled the world’s largest “math emporium,” a 600-seat lab that has the capacity to serve half of the district’s over 41,000 credit students in developmental math at the 2014 annual EDUCAUSE conference. Known as the ACCelerator, the emporium is contained within a state-of-the art learning center built on the former site of Austin’s Highland Mall. The ACCelerator is powered by McGraw-Hill Education’s adaptive math program, ALEKS®.
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September New Books List @ PSE Library

Curious about the new books added by PSE this Fiscal Year? The New Books list will be updated monthly and posted to the blog near the end of each month. The most recent PSE New Books list dated 9/29/14 is now available.

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Scope unveils new enhanced version of SemantiCzTM
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced the release of an enhanced version of its content enrichment solution, SemantiCzTM. Advanced text mining and ontology based semantic tagging are some of the key features of the enhanced version that help to generate relationships with precise, subject-specific contextual accuracy.
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New Knovel application enables building information management system users to search Knovel within Revit
STM publisher Elsevier has introduced Knovel Quick Search for Autodesk Revit. The Knovel application provides users of Autodesk’s building information management (BIM) system, with seamless access to Knovel from within the Revit platform. Knovel is a cloud-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools.
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Biosimilars set to revolutionise global drug development industry with over 700 therapies in pipelines
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the release of Biosimilars: A Global Perspective of a New Market – Opportunities, Threats and Critical Strategies 2014. The new report, compiled by Thomson Reuters BioWorld, the premier biopharmaceutical news service, provides critical insights for companies and regions interested in maintaining a strong position and moving ahead of the competition in the biosimilars space.
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ProQuest Collections now indexed and discoverable via Ex Libris Primo Central Index
Information industry leaders ProQuest and Ex Libris® Group have announced that over 200 of ProQuest’s most widely used databases 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. The collaboration between ProQuest and Ex Libris began earlier in 2014 with an agreement to index ProQuest full-text and A&I databases in Primo Central.
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Lippincott Procedures online software updated, nearly 400 AMSN-endorsed medical-surgical procedures to go online by mid-2015
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has updated the Lippincott Procedures online software with a set of medical-surgical nursing procedures that underwent extensive review by the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN). One-quarter of the 395 AMSN-endorsed procedures are included in the October Lippincott Procedures update with the remainder to be released quarterly through July 2015.
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Daisaku & Kaneko Ikeda Library of Soka University of America selects EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that Daisaku & Kaneko Ikeda Library of Soka University of America (SUA) recently selected the EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) as its new custom discovery solution for the library’s databases. SUA chose EDS to enhance its community’s research experience and the library has found working with EBSCO representatives and engineers to be an excellent experience as well.
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Copyright Clearance Center partners with Frankfurt Book Fair for series of international events in 2014-15
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has been named the Rights Licensing Partner of the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair. The Rights Licensing Partnership includes sponsorship of the International Rights Directors Meeting, CONTEC Frankfurt, and various Business Breakfasts.
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Pearson’s new digital learning tool, REVEL, to improve learner outcomes in higher education
Learning company Pearson has announced the launch of REVEL – an immersive digital learning tool that replaces both the printed textbook and existing online learning tools for General Studies courses. REVEL is designed for the way today’s students learn, think and consume content. It aims to keep students engaged in their study materials and, in turn, get the most out of their courses.
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Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi named founding editor-in-chief of ACS Central Science journal
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that internationally renowned chemist Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi will take the helm as editor-in-chief of its first fully open access journal, ACS Central Science, which is set to launch in early 2015. Currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at the University of California at Berkeley, Bertozzi is widely recognized as one of the most accomplished and respected chemists of her generation.
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De Gruyter Open to convert eight subscription journals to Open Access mega journals
Open Access publisher De Gruyter Open has announced that it will publish a group of eight Central European Journals now distributed in subscription model by Springer and turn them to Open Access, starting with volume 2015. This is a move unprecedented for a group of STM journals, being supplemented by three new launches in the humanities.
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Intermountain Healthcare to consult with Cerner on DHMSM program
Cerner recently announced a strategic agreement with Intermountain Healthcare to provide clinical governance of solutions and workflow to be proposed for the Department of Defense’s Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) initiative. Cerner is a member of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, an alliance that includes Leidos, the domain experts in Military Health, and Accenture, a global IT and management consulting.
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ICIS unveils mobile web app for ICIS Dashboard service
ICIS, a petrochemical market information supplier and independent authority on global energy markets, has launched a mobile web app which enables its customers to view price assessments, breaking news and market reports via their smart phones. The mobile web app provides customers with direct access to this data wherever they are, giving them access to their subscription information on the ICIS Dashboard through their smart phone.
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Oxford University Press announces free access to Electronic Enlightenment for British Library users
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that users of the British Library will now be able to use the Electronic Enlightenment (EE) online resource as part of a two year trial. Electronic Enlightenment is a project based at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and distributed by Oxford University Press. It is available by annual subscription to institutions and individuals worldwide.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Robert Harington (The Role of Scholarly Societies); Stevan Harnad (The Fruits of Finch/RCUK Profligacy (and Publishing Lobby Success)); Hadley Wickham (How is data science different to mainstream statistics?); and Rick Anderson (Quality and Relevance: A Matrix Model for Thinking about Scholarly Books and Libraries). 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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