Knowledgespeak Newsletter

24 August 2012

US Dept. of Justice refutes objections raised over e-book pricing deal The DoJ has said that arguments made by various organisations objecting to the final judgment reached between the government and Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster over e-book price fixing charges raise no new issues. The organisations objecting to the judgment include Apple, Macmillan and Penguin. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier launches third global CodeForScience competition STM publisher Elsevier has launched its third global CodeForScience (CFS) competition in collaboration with The National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management University (SMU). CodeForScience is a global series of application development competitions for scientists, researchers and developers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journals join OUP The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene has announced that two of its journals will join the Oxford University Press (OUP) collection in a new partnership announced between the organisations. The journals, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and International Health, seek to promote and advance the study, control, and prevention of diseases in humans and other animals in the tropics and sub-tropics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE set to publish two journals of the Australian Council for Educational Research Academic publisher SAGE and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has announced a new agreement to publish its two journals - The Australian Journal of Education and The Australian Journal of Career Development - from April 2013. The first SAGE issues will publish in April 2013. The new website will be http://www.acer.sagepub.com. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Registrations now open for ARL-ACRL Human Resources symposium The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with the Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is hosting a Human Resources Symposium. The event is scheduled for November 15-16, 2012, in Washington, DC. Registration for this symposium is now open. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest version of NCIP to support interoperability for resource sharing NISO has announced the publication of the two-part American National Standard on the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol, ANSI/NISO Z39.83. NCIP addresses the need for interoperability among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing and self-service applications by standardising the exchange of messages between and among computer-based applications. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RSI Content Solutions appoints David Saracco as VP, business development RSI Content Solutions, a US-based provider of content management services, has announced the addition of David Saracco as vice president, business development to expand the RSuite CMS sales team and help further develop key publishing markets. Saracco brings more than 20 years' experience having worked at global publishing companies as well as publishing service and technology companies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

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