Knowledgespeak Newsletter

23 July 2012

ORCID Registry set for October 2012 launch, solicits launch partners The new ORCID Registry will go live in October 2012. ORCID is currently soliciting launch partners to get broad feedback on launch functionality and to ensure early integration of ORCID services. Partners must be dedicated to provide feedback throughout the 15-week launch period. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Nature Publishing Group's Linked Data Platform now hosts over 270 million RDF statements Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that its Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements. It has been expanded more than ten times, in a growing number of datasets. These datasets have been created under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) waiver, which permits maximal use/reuse of this data. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RSC and JISC Collections partnership provides member organisations with access to more chemical sciences content The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has signed a three-year agreement with JISC Collections for the latest deal expanding access to the RSC's international journals portfolio. The NESLi2 journals offer with JISC Collections for 2013 includes an option to buy the increasingly popular RSC Gold package. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Elsevier Foundation, TWAS and OWSD launch awards programme to recognise women scientists in developing nations The Elsevier Foundation, the academy of sciences for the developing world (TWAS) and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) have announced the launch of an awards programme recognising talented early career women scientists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Each winner will be celebrated for their research excellence and will receive a cash prize of US$5,000 at the annual AAAS conference in February 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPIE announces price freeze for SPIE Digital Library in 2013 SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced reduced or frozen subscription prices for subscribers of the SPIE Digital Library. An additional 40,000 articles from 1962-1989 are also being added to the collection, at no additional cost to subscribers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central launches new online reprint ordering service Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of a new online reprint ordering service, provided by EzReprint, a part of Yurchak Printing, Inc, based in the US. Reprints are produced from the final typeset article PDF. The EzReprint service is available for both open access and subscription based articles. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Aviation Week Editor-in-Chief Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. to retire, search for successor underway Aviation Week, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies has announced that its Editor-in-Chief, Anthony L. Velocci, Jr., will retire following a distinguished 23-year career with Aviation Week, nine of them as Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology (AW&ST). A search for his successor has begun. Velocci will remain in his position until the end of the year and will assist during the transition period. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Infosys teams up with UBM TechWeb to launch online community for cloud adoption Infosys, in partnership with UBM TechWeb, has unveiled cloudecosystem.com, a worldwide community for enterprise leaders to accelerate successful cloud adoption. This site seeks to offer a forum to facilitate discussions around industry issues and share best-practices for cloud adoption. 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: Joe Wikert (Can You Force a Customer to Buy Print Instead of E?); David Wojick (Complying with the RCUK Mandate . . . Or Not); Elizabeth Tait and Jennifer Holden (Tracking digital impact: The challenge of evidencing impact); Glyn Moody (Open Access: Not All That is Gold Glisters) and Mercy Pilkington (Long Term Effects of the DoJ Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

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