Knowledgespeak Newsletter

6 July 2012

CAS and the Council of Australian University Librarians partner to provide unlimited access to SciFinder Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has signed an agreement with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) for unlimited access to SciFinder. CAUL comprises 39 academic institutions in Australia, including the University of Melbourne, Australian National University and the University of Sydney. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Malaysian university, Thomson Reuters hold event on evidence-based research evaluation University of Malaya and Thomson Reuters jointly organised a conference on evidence-based research evaluation. The 'Conference on Institutional Perspectives on Evidence-Based Research Evaluation' garnered debate on research performance metrics used by institutions around the world, and which were particularly relevant and important in Malaysia's context. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer announces impact factor increases for 2011 STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has announced significant increases in impact factors throughout its journal portfolio, according to the 2011 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Thomson Reuters. A total of 62 Springer journals earned their first impact factor this year, bringing the number of journals Springer now has in the database to 1,469. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme JISC Collections to provide UK universities streamlined access to Knovel JISC Collections, the membership organisation that supports the provision of digital content for education and research in the UK, and Knovel have signed a new three year agreement which gives UK universities and colleges streamlined access to Knovel. Knovel is a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oxford University Press launches new OA journal - Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Foundation have announced the launch of an open access journal - Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (EMPH). The journal will publish original, rigorous applications of evolutionary biology to problems in medicine and public health, and research that seek to advance basic evolutionary biology by studying issues that arise in the medical sciences. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAE International announces third edition of Vehicle Brake Design and Safety Engineers and technical experts association SAE International has announced the third edition of the title 'Brake Design and Safety.' The third edition provides readers with the basic theoretical fundamentals and analytical tools necessary to design braking systems for passenger vehicles and trucks. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Library of Medicine adds five new collections to digital oral history holdings The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine recently added to its online oral history content 130 interviews, over 6,800 pages of transcripts and 50 hours of audio content, along with five new special collections. The content may be accessed at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/oh.html. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ScienceAlerts.com adds Environmental Sciences category ScienceAlerts.com, a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content, has announced that the latest addition to this website is the Environmental Sciences Category. The new category currently features more than 27,000 articles selected from over 150 scientific environment publishing sources. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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