Knowledgespeak Newsletter

23 August 2012

Elsevier / Gold Standard revamp Drug Class Overviews to address changing needs of healthcare professionals Drug information provider Elsevier / Gold Standard has announced its new Drug Class Overviews, making Clinical Pharmacology more valuable at the point of care. Elsevier / Gold Standard has improved the speed and usability of the content through bulleted summaries and tables, highlighting a variety of critical areas in drug-interaction information. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme E-Book user base expands to 24.5 percent of adult population, says Simba report Media forecast and research firm Simba Information has published an addendum to its recently released Trade E-Book Publishing 2012 report. In addition to showing an updated list of e-book hardware trends, the data indicates that about 24.5 percent of US adults consider themselves to be e-book users, up from about 17.2 percent the year before. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Mendeley database handles over 100 million calls per month Mendeley has announced that the number of queries to its database from external applications has surpassed 100 million per month. Using Mendeley's suite of document management tools, in three years its global community of 1.9 million researchers has created a shared database containing 65 million documents. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPIE launches new open access programme for journals SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new programme that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NISO brings out Journal Article Tag Suite Standard for journal publishers NISO has published a new American National Standard, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012. JATS provides a common XML format in which publishers can exchange journal content by preserving the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which that content was originally delivered. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Maney Publishing set to publish official journal of Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing Academic publisher Maney Publishing will be collaborating with the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing (APSSLH) to launch the Speech, Language and Hearing journal in 2013. The journal is the official journal of APSSLH and is provided to each member as part of their membership. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Dove Medical Press acquires Journal of Parkinsonism and Restless Legs Syndrome Open access publisher Dove Medical Press has announced that it has acquired the Journal of Parkinsonism & Restless Legs Syndrome (JPRLS). The journal is written exclusively for the medical and scientific community wishing to read related research, policy, phenomenology, literature, history, and treatment. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Platts introduces ash differential to thermal coal pricing Energy and metals information provider Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., has introduced a valuation mechanism that will bring greater clarity and specificity to thermal coal pricing based on ash content. Ash is the non-combustible residue left after coal is burnt. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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