Knowledgespeak Newsletter

26 April 2012

LCA files friend of the court brief to defend fair use rights of libraries Members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) recently filed a friend of the court brief to defend the fair use rights of libraries. The libraries' brief, prepared by Jonathan Band, responds to the plaintiffs' distorted view of libraries' rights, showing that it would affect not only the legitimate and beneficial uses at issue in this case, but also libraries' rights to provide the most basic services, including lending books and providing Internet access to the public. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Optical Society members discuss federal funding of R&D with US policymakers Optical Society members came together on Capitol Hill recently to speak with US lawmakers about science policy issues and federal investments in R&D. The OSA members will join more than 200 scientists, engineers and graduate students as part of the annual Congressional Visits Day (CVD). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier appoints Jim Donohue as MD for Global Clinical Reference group STM publisher Elsevier has appointed Jim Donohue as Managing Director of the Global Clinical Reference group in Elsevier Health Sciences. In this new role, Donohue will report to Michael Hansen, CEO of Elsevier Health Sciences. One of Donohue's first responsibilities is the commercial launch in April 2012 of Elsevier's ClinicalKey, which claims to be the world's first clinical insight engine. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Lexicomp partners with Logical Images to deliver oral lesion diagnosis tool for dental professionals Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that Lexicomp has partnered with Logical Images to deliver an oral lesion diagnosis tool, VisualDx Oral, for dental professionals. VisualDx Oral combines the power of a searchable medical image library of oral lesions with concise, specialist-developed clinical information. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Indiana University selected as a partner institution in new data curation fellowship programme Indiana University, through a joint effort between its Data to Insight Center and IU Libraries, has been selected as a partner institution in the Council on Library and Information Resources/Digital Library Federation Data Curation Fellowship Program. The programme is made possible by a $679,827 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme More than 12 million catalogue records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available The Harvard Library has announced that it is making more than 12 million catalogue records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available. The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more. The Harvard Library is making these records available in accordance with its Open Metadata Policy and under a Creative Commons 0 (CC0) public domain license. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Solar Energy International selects Pearson to create a new professional textbook series Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has been selected by Solar Energy International (SEI), a provider of technical training in solar, wind, water power and natural building technologies, to create a new professional textbook series available in print and eBook formats. SEI offers hands-on workshops and online technical training for careers in renewable energy as well as continuing education for those already employed in the industry. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Genome Designs to use SciDM tools to boost genome annotation pipelines Genome Designs has announced a partnership with SciDM Group, a bioinformatics tools developer. Genome Designs will use SciDM's database engine, transcriptomics data processing pipeline and high throughput sequence comparison technology to augment its existing genome annotation pipelines and to boost custom software development projects for clients. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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