Registrations now open for upcoming ORCID Outreach Meeting The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that registration for upcoming ORCID Outreach Meeting is now open. The ORCID Outreach Meeting is a joint conference, organised together with CASRAI, and hosted by the University of Barcelona. More Search for more news in this Category Search… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
The London Book Fair and the Publishers Association announce leaders in social & viral content as new speakers for Publishing for Digital Minds Conference The London Book Fair, in association with the Publishers Association, has confirmed a raft of new speakers for the Publishing for Digital Minds Conference (pDMC), including leading publishers and content professionals… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
Elsevier announces second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences STM publisher Elsevier has announced the forthcoming publication of the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Dr. James Wright. More than 3900 chapters comprising all areas of the social and behavioural sciences offer… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
Thomson Reuters unveils nominations for Allicense 2015 Breakthrough Awards The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has unveiled the nominations for the Allicense 2015 Breakthrough Awards, honouring the leading deals of 2014 in Biopharmaceutical Licensing and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), as identified by Thomson Reuters Recap, the leading provider of analysis and advice… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
Ebooks are an ‘electronic service’ and subject to higher tax, rules EU court The EU’s highest court recently ruled that the European Union countries may not extend tax exemptions for books to include ebooks, adding that it considers downloadable ebooks to be services. E-books must be subject to the full rate of value-added tax (VAT),… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
De Gruyter partners with Scope to create MARC records from ONIX/Klopotek XML files Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced its engagement with De Gruyter, a leading academic publisher headquartered in Berlin, to create MARC records from ONIX or Klopotek XML files. As part… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
NFAIS selects OCLC’s Mary Sauer-Games as new Board of Directors President The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a membership association for the information services industry, has announced the selection of Mary Sauer-Games, OCLC Vice President of Product Management, as its new Board of Directors President. Sauer-Games begins a one-year term as Board President,… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
SPARC announces theme for 8th International Open Access Week The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that the theme for this year’s 8th International Open Access Week will be ‘Open for Collaboration.’ The theme highlights the ways in which collaboration both inspires and advances the Open Access movement—from the partnerships behind launching… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
Wolters Kluwer partners with Society of Pediatric Nurses to review pediatric content in Lippincott Solutions Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer has announced a partnership with the Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN) to review pediatric-specific content for the Lippincott Solutions software suite. With a membership comprising more than 3,500 pediatric nurses, SPN is the… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »
Springer launches new open access journal – International Journal of Implant Dentistry STM publisher Springer has launched a new open access journal, the International Journal of Implant Dentistry. Sponsored by the German Association of Dental Implantology (DGI) and the Japanese Socieities of Oral Implantology (JSOI), and published by SpringerOpen, the journal is dedicated to the… Read More: Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert »