Knowledgespeak Newsletter

2 May 2012

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Corp announce strategic partnership to form new Barnes & Noble subsidiary Book retailer Barnes & Noble and software vendor Microsoft Corp. have announced a strategic partnership to form a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will build upon the history of strong innovation in digital reading technologies from both companies. The new subsidiary will bring together the digital and College businesses of Barnes & Noble. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme MEI overhauls Howard Hughes Medical Institute's quarterly publication using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe premier development partner, has announced that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is now using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to produce the iPad edition of its quarterly magazine - HHMI Bulletin. HHMI hired MEI's design and production team to help create upcoming tablet issues of the publication as well as to rebuild existing iPad issues using Adobe DPS. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UK public sector saving £28 million through open access to scholarly content, say reports The UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) has released two reports that say open access to published scholarly research offers significant benefits to the UK. The UK public sector already saves £28.6 million by using OA. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier appoints Hajo Oltmanns to lead expansion of CPM's clinical decision support tools STM publisher Elsevier has announced the appointment of Hajo Oltmanns as the new President of Elsevier CPM Resource Center (CPM), a firm developing clinical decision support tools for healthcare. Hajo will lead the continued development and expansion of CPM's clinical decision support tools and the engagement of the CPM International Consortium. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Future Medicinal Chemistry publishes mini focus on rheumatology Future Medicinal Chemistry, a journal published by Future Science Ltd., has published a mini focus dedicated to developments in the area of rheumatology, with contributions from academic experts based in Europe, North America and Asia. The mini focus provides a snapshot of the current state of this active field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme DCC unveils Vitae's Information Literacy lens and 'Informed Researcher' booklet The UK's Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has announced new publications from Vitae. These include a mapping of information literacy onto the Vitae Researcher Development Framework, using the SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy. To support the Information Literacy lens, the Informed Researcher booklet has been developed. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme MarkLogic honours partners and customers at MarkLogic World 2012 Enterprise software firm MarkLogic Corporation has announced the 2012 winners of the MarkLogic Excellence Awards, the Lindblad Award, and the Partner of the Year Award. The awards were recently presented at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. Recipients were honoured for trailblazing through Big Data challenges with MarkLogic-based applications. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Society for Range Management journal wins Gold EXCEL award Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc. has announced that co-publishing client, Society for Range Management, was recently awarded the Gold EXCEL Award for General Journal Excellence for their journal Rangelands. EXCEL Awards are given by Association Media & Publishing (AM&P), a professional organisation serving the needs of association publishers, communications professionals and the media they create. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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