Knowledgespeak Newsletter

10 October 2012

Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 begins, digital forms of books take centre stage on opening day The annual Frankfurt Book Fair kicked off October 10, 2012. More than 7,000 exhibitors from 100 countries are attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. Digital forms of books is a central theme of conversations at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Apress unveils ApressOpen, offers free and full access to professional-level content Technology books publisher Apress has announced the launch of ApressOpen, a program that offers technology companies and professionals the opportunity to publish technical and business content under an open access model. With ApressOpen, content will be freely available through multiple online distribution channels and electronic formats with the goal of disseminating professionally edited and technically reviewed content to the worldwide community. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest to offer access to Journal Watch via expanded tie-up with NEJM ProQuest has expanded its long-standing relationship with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to provide access to Journal Watch, the medical literature surveillance newsletter series. The expanded agreement extends aggregation and distribution rights to ProQuest for multiple years. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ex Libris Primo Central Index to cover Taylor & Francis content Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Ex Libris Primo Central Index will soon be covering the metadata and full text of all journal content on the Taylor & Francis Online platform and in the Taylor & Francis Open programme. The Primo Central Index is a cloud-based service adopted by hundreds of libraries around the globe. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Health Economic Evaluations Database now available via EBSCOhost Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has announced that the Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED) is now available via EBSCOhost. HEED is a database containing information on studies of cost-effectiveness and other forms of economic evaluation of medicines. The database includes over 46,000 selected records and bibliographies and data from more than 5,000 journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BMC series biology journals urge authors to publish supporting data online BioMed Central has announced that BMC series biology journals have joined BMC Research Notes in encouraging all authors of original research-based articles to publish supporting data permanently online. The authors have also been urged to include an 'Availability of supporting data' section in their articles. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wiley's Roitt's Essential Immunology, 12th Edition, wins BMA Book of the Year award Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that Roitt's Essential Immunology, 12th Edition, has won the British Medical Association (BMA) Book of the Year Award. The BMA Medical Book Awards aim to encourage and reward excellence in medical publishing. Prizes are awarded in 21 categories, with the overall Book of the Year selected from the category winners. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Stanford University Press partners with Oxford University Press to launch Stanford Scholarship Online on OUP's UPSO platform Academic publisher Stanford University Press has announced a partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP) to launch Stanford Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform. Responding to increased demand for online scholarly content, UPSO streamlines the research journey by making disparately published monographs easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via one online platform. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL publishes Library Contribution to Accreditation, SPEC Kit 330 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Library Contribution to Accreditation, SPEC Kit 330. This SPEC Kit explores the scope of accreditation standards, the data provided by research libraries to meet the requirements of accrediting bodies, and which library staff participate in preparing reports and site visits. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme De Gruyter announces new partnership for open-access distribution with the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Academic publisher De Gruyter has launched an innovative new partnership for open-access distribution with the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). A new study, "Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations in Europe: First Results from SHARE after the Economic Crisis," will appear in mid-2013 as an open-access publication, meaning it will be available free of charge to researchers and decision-makers around the world. 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