Knowledgespeak Newsletter

5 July 2012

CERN researchers announce participation at Frankfurt Book Fair CERN researchers will participate in the Frankfurt Book Fair (October 10-14, 2012) event. They will take questions directly as visitors get a live connection look into the CERN control room. Among the displays is the first server of the web, developed in 1989 in Geneva. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier and Geological Society of London honoured for best Education/Industry partnership at 2012 Getenergy awards ceremony STM publisher Elsevier has announced that, together with the Geological Society of London, it has won the award for best Education/Industry Partnership at the 2012 Getenergy awards ceremony. Celebrating excellence in education and training in the upstream oil and gas industry, the Getenergy awards help to validate the significance and sustainable quality of work that benefits the wider oil and gas energy industry. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thieme Publishing Group revamps E-Journals platform, improves usability and technological functions STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group has redesigned its E-Journals platform, improving usability and technological functions. Medical and health professionals can now access E-Journals wherever they are - in the library, at the office or on the go. With its user-friendly search, E-Journal offers convenient, efficient access to the online content of 150 journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Scolaris launches new publishing platform at S3UG event UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced the launch of Scolaris, the new digital publishing platform for the scholarly and academic publishing. The product launch took place at the S3UG event on June 28, 2012 at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. The event was attended by a select group of industry professionals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme De Gruyter announces new eJournal pricing model 2013 Academic publisher De Gruyter has announced its new eJournal pricing model 2013. The subscription options now available include: Complete Package STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) including 300 journals, or LLH (Language, Literature, Humanities, Law, Economics) including 247 journals, Complete Package STM English only or LLH English only. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL joins library groups to support lending rights The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has joined the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), who work collectively as the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), to file an amicus curiae brief (PDF) with the Supreme Court of the United States in support of petitioner Supap Kirtsaeng in the case Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons. The LCA believes it is critically important for the court to recognise the impact this case could have on library services to the public and consider possible solutions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cambridge University Press set to publish Journal of British Studies Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced that it will publish Journal of British Studies (JBS) on behalf of the North American Conference on British Studies from January 2013. The official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), the JBS has positioned itself over fifty years as one of the critical resources for scholars of British culture from the middle ages to the present. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IFLA, other library groups express concern over TPPA stand on copyrights Negotiators from nine countries are meeting in San Diego to discuss the TPPA. IFLA has expressed concern that the TPPA's extensive intellectual property chapter does not reflect the balance necessary to protect the public domain and the ways in which society may access and use content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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