Knowledgespeak Newsletter

31 August 2012

Thomson Reuters partners with North American universities to evaluate and promote research output The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has joined forces with several North American universities to demonstrate the efficiency and impact of their research. The reliable and trusted indicators from Thomson Reuters InCites, a customised, web-based research evaluation tool, will allow them to measure their research output and impact, monitor trends, and benchmark their performance against peers at the individual, departmental and global levels. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wiley joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced its new membership of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA represents the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines and enables exchange of information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Access to state-specific and Canadian educational requirements via EBSCO Publishing's K-8 electronic databases Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) continues its commitment as a partner for schools and school libraries by announcing the enhancement of the Curriculum Standards feature available through many of its popular K-8 interfaces and databases. EBSCO's Curriculum Standards module, powered by Academic Benchmarks, has been expanded to include Common Core for mathematics and language arts; Canadian standards; and new and updated standards from US states. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme E-readers may survive media tablet onslaught as niche play, says ABI Research report An ABI Research report says the growing popularity of media tablets will reduce the e-reader opportunity over the next five years. But there will always be a niche market for the dedicated reading device for voracious readers and educational segments, particularly ones that are low-priced. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE and United European Gastroenterology to launch United European Gastroenterology Journal Academic publisher SAGE and United European Gastroenterology (UEG) have announced an agreement to launch United European Gastroenterology Journal (UEG Journal) in February 2013. UEG Journal will be UEG's official platform for scientific publication. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Registrations now open for ARL forum on workforce for 21st-century libraries The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that it will host a forum, 'Library Workforce for 21st-Century Research Libraries,' on October 11-12, 2012, in Washington, DC, immediately following the ARL Membership Meeting. The forum is open to all and is geared for research library directors, senior library staff, and organisation development and human resources staff. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Western Regional Storage Trust completes first round of print journal archiving The Western Regional Storage Trust, a partnership to create a distributed retrospective print journal repository in western US, has completed its first round of print journal archiving. This has been accomplished under a three-year programme jointly funded by WEST members and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Academy of Management launches new AOM Publications Portal on HighWire Open Platform The Academy of Management (AOM) has announced the launch of the new AOM Publications portal on the HighWire Open Platform. With this move, the AOM titles on the HighWire Open Platform embrace an online format that is quick and easy to use, offering greater discoverability, potential for innovation and personalization options. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on Monday, September 03, 2012, on account of the 'Labor Day' holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, September 04, 2012. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the August 31st issue.

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Knowledgespeak Newsletter

30 August 2012

IEEE, other standards organisations endorse OpenStand' principles Five global organisations have endorsed OpenStand, a set of principles establishing a modern paradigm for global, open standards. The organisations include the IEEE, Internet Architecture Board, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Society and World Wide Web Consortium. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier's Gold Standard module to help Rite Aid pharmacies track legislation changes and streamline information sharing Drug information provider Elsevier's Gold Standard has announced that Rite Aid Corporation, one of the nation's leading drug store chains, has selected the Gold Standard Drug Database State and Federal module to monitor legislative updates made to prescription medications. The integration of the Gold Standard Drug Database State and Federal module allows Rite Aid to streamline and automate the process of tracking changing state and federal regulations for Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and legend status. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme WK Health and The Altos Group partner to develop sepsis mortality reduction programme Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced a strategic partnership with The Altos Group to advance development of an innovative sepsis mortality reduction programme. Hospitals are currently being enrolled to serve as pilot sites in the programme, which brings together mobile technology, actionable clinical content and clinical change management to enable early sepsis identification and intervention. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Tilburg University opts for OCLC WorldCat Local discovery service Library information provider OCLC has announced that Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, has gone live with WorldCat Local, the company's cloud-based discovery and delivery service that allow users to search their library's collection along with the collections of thousands of other libraries worldwide. With the launch of WorldCat Local, Tilburg University has chosen to focus first on the most user-critical service while taking a significant step toward migration of its entire library management workflow to the cloud with the adoption of OCLC WorldShare Management Services. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme MetaPress appoints Mark Carden as Business Development Director for Europe MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content as well as humanities and social sciences, has announced that it has retained Mark Carden to act as director of sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Carden is a technology and education consultant with more than 15 years experience in business development for scholarly content, software and service providers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LITA unveils guide on electronic resources management for librarians The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) has unveiled Managing Electronic Resources, a guide published by Neal-Schuman Publishers. The resource provides advice on the tools and best practices in the field of electronic resource management, helping librarians tackle their workload while saving time, effort and money. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LibQUAL+ opens registration for 2013 LibQUAL+ has announced the opening of registration for 2013. LibQUAL+ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users' opinions of service quality. These services are offered to the international library community by the Association of Research Libraries. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme De Gruyter and Commercial Press announce strategic partnership Academic publisher De Gruyter has entered into a strategic partnership with Commercial Press, a renowned Chinese publisher in the humanities and social sciences. The partnership agreement, which is effective immediately, provides for the intensive exchange of academic content between the two publishing houses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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