Knowledgespeak Newsletter

7 May 2012

Authors Guild accuses Google of hurting millions of authors with Library project A group representing authors in a copyright case slammed Google in court last week, saying the company's book-scanning project had hurt millions of authors whose works had been digitised. The Authors Guild is seeking class-certification status for its claims. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Metadata from millions of OA catalogue records from Harvard Library now available via EBSCO Discovery Service Database and e-books aggregator EBSCO Publishing has announced that the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset is now available via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). EBSCO Discovery Service users will now be able to search millions of Harvard Library catalogue records in the Base Index of EDS. The addition of these resources from Harvard Library adds to the rapidly growing content available to EDS users. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest and partners to add new census content to HeritageQuest Online service Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest has announced that it is joining forces with Archives.com, FamilySearch International, findmypast.com and the National Association of Records and Archives in the 1940 US Census Community Project, a collaborative effort to index the contents of the newly released US 1940 Census. ProQuest will add the new census content to its acclaimed HeritageQuest Online service, one of libraries' most valued and widely used genealogical tools. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE commissions research team at LISU to undertake research investigating the value of academic libraries for academic staff Academic and professional publisher SAGE has commissioned the research team at LISU, Loughborough University (UK) to undertake research investigating the value of academic libraries for academic staff. The intention is to identify exemplars of good practice to raise the profile and value of the library within the institution, and to academic staff in particular. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ScienceIndex.com adds Neurology and Nutrition categories ScienceIndex.com, a Web 2.0 sciences social network, has announced that it has added two new categories - Neurology and Nutrition. While the Neurology category covers the nervous system and its disorders, the Nutrition category covers nourishment, including nutrients that organisms must obtain from their environment to maintain health. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPARC-ACRL forum scheduled to be held at ALA on June 23 The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that the next SPARC-ACRL Forum, 'Campus Open Access Funds: The State of Play' will be held at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, on June 23, 2012. Co-sponsored by SPARC and ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries), the popular semi-annual forum focuses on emerging issues in scholarly communication. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Pearson and LearnSomething partnership to expand professional training solutions Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has announced an expansion of its professional training solutions by partnering with LearnSomething, a provider of customised, digitally-delivered corporate training services. The collaboration will result in a comprehensive set of solutions to assist corporations, associations, unions and government agencies such as business, IT and healthcare. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Bloomberg BNA Healthcare publications win 2012 ASHPE awards Bloomberg BNA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomberg, has received two 2012 awards for healthcare reporting from The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE). ASHPE recognises editorial excellence and achievement in the field of healthcare publishing. The annual awards competition provides an opportunity for editors to measure their efforts against the very best the healthcare sector has to offer. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Where There's Smoke - Is Sponsorship of Open Access Author Fees a New Type of Conflict of Interest?); Patrick Dunleavy (Paper books in a digital era: How conservative publishers and authors almost killed off books in university social science); David Smith (Crossing the Rubicon - Is the UK Going to Enable Open Access for All Taxpayer-Funded Research by 2014?); and Heather Morrison (Journal price increases: the costlier the journal the more important smaller percentage increase). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. 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