Knowledgespeak Newsletter

24 April 2012

More than 20,000 individual Springer titles now available on Apple's iBookstore STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has announced one of the largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) book collections on the iBookstore with more than 20,000 individual Springer titles. Cornerstone works in disciplines like mathematics, medicine and engineering are now available, along with selections in other fields such as business and economics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters announces definitive agreement to sell Healthcare Business to Veritas Capital Business information provider Thomson Reuters has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Healthcare business to an affiliate of Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash. The sale, expected to close in the next few months, is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The European Library Collections and Europeana now discoverable via the Summon Service Serials Solutions has announced that its Summon Web-scale Discovery service, in cooperation with the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), will make the vast collections of The European Library and Europeana discoverable in the Summon unified index. Summon users will be able to search across hundreds of millions of records from The European Library as well as Europeana, a repository of digitised assets from across Europe. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC releases executive summary on Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums OCLC has released the third report of the Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums series. The Executive Summary provides an overview of all reports. The recommendation is that it is riskier to do nothing and become irrelevant to user communities than to start using social media features. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE and Association for Psychological Science launch new journal, Clinical Psychological Science Academic and professional publisher SAGE and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) have announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal - Clinical Psychological Science. This is the APS's fifth scholarly journal, joining Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Psychological Science in the Public Interest and Perspectives on Psychological Science. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AAP and AEP to co-produce new all-industry annual conference The School Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) have partnered to produce a new all-industry annual conference. 'Content in Context,' scheduled for June 3-6 in Washington, DC, claims to be the industry's largest annual gathering. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Semantico directors to present at ALPSP seminar: Mobilising Digital Content UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced that the company's Managing Director, Richard Padley and Strategy Director, Rob Yates will be joining a panel of industry experts to discuss issues surrounding the mobile industry and its effects on publishing. The event will be hosted by ALPSP and will take place at the Royal College of Pathologists, London SW1Y on May 16, 2012. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Journal report on multidisciplinary care for lower back pain Mary Ann Liebert's Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine has published a study saying patients with lower back pain might benefit significantly from an individualised, multidisciplinary, team-based model of care. The article, 'A Model of Integrative Care for Low-Back Pain,' is available at the journal's website. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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