Knowledgespeak Newsletter

20 August 2012

Nobel laureates to give research presentations at American Chemical Society meeting Five Nobel laureates have research that will be presented this week during the American Chemical Society's 244th National Meeting & Exposition. Research from the laureates' teams will be among 8,600 presentations during the event, expected to attract more than 14,000 scientists and others. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC survey among British, German and Dutch librarians shows changing priorities A survey conducted by OCLC earlier this year among librarians from the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands shows that practitioners expect library usage to change considerably. About three quarters expected a rise in online visits within the next year, and two-thirds of those who responded anticipate a change in the primary reason to visit the library in the next five years. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters appoints Jasper Simons as VP, Product & Market Strategy, Publishing & Associations The Intellectual Property & Science Business of Thomson Reuters has announced Jasper Simons as the new vice president of product and market strategy, publishing and associations. In his new role, Simons will lead product strategy and development for the scientific and scholarly research product portfolio at Thomson Reuters, focused on the publishing and association markets. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UBM Electronics and ECIA call for entries for the 2012 Electronics Choice Industry Awards for Marketing UBM Electronics, a US-based provider of media and marketing solutions for the design engineering and the electronics industry, and the Electronics Components Industry Association (ECIA) have called for entries for the 2012 Electronics Choice Industry Awards (ECIA's). The awards celebrate excellence in marketing by honoring ECIA members who have displayed exceptional branding and marketing programmes in the past year. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ebrary strengthens strategic e-book acquisition for K-12 libraries with common core standards content ebrary, a ProQuest business, has added hundreds of relevant e-books across acquisition models, which provide libraries with the best value when combined. The initiative is projected to help K-12 libraries acquire e-books more strategically. Diversifying acquisition models is a key component of ebrary's three-step approach: Transition, Diversify, and Streamline. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme De Gruyter and NINJAL in deal to jointly launch Japanese Language and Linguistics handbook series Academic publisher De Gruyter has signed a partnership agreement with the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo. The first joint project is the publication of the Japanese Language and Linguistics handbook series, which will comprise 12 volumes. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Science Exchange launches Reproducibility Initiative with PLOS, figshare Science Exchange, in partnership with open access publisher PLOS and open data repository figshare, has announced the launch of the Reproducibility Initiative. The new programme aims to encourage independent replication of valuable research and thereby help scientists, institutions and funding agencies validate their critical research findings. 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 (The Reproducibility Initiative - Solving a Problem, or Just Another Attempt to Draw on Research Funds?); Teresa Penfield (If impact is essential to REF, how can we find a common definition across research fields?); Heather Morrison (CC-BY and - or versus? - open access); and Mike Shatzkin (Perhaps the revolution has reached an evolutionary stage). 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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