Knowledgespeak Newsletter

15 October 2012

Frankfurt Book Fair witnesses ten percent growth in participation/networking of international content industries The Frankfurt Book Fair ended October 14, 2012, with a small increase in visitor numbers on last year, while demonstrating the 'courage and innovative power of Europe, and of the international publishing industry'. The conference and seminar programme of the Frankfurt Academy recorded a ten percent increase in the number of participants compared to last year. Around 3,300 people used the Frankfurt Book Fair as a chance to meet the 'movers & shakers' of the digital book industry. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Global Health database from CABI hits 2 million records Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that its specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database, Global Health, now has over 2 million records. Derived from over 6,000 journals, reports, books and conferences, the open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature mean that over 50 percent of the serials in Global Health are unique to the database. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters and Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan honour country's leading scientific researchers and journals The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters joined the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan to honour the country's leading scientific researchers and journals, across a variety of disciplines. The 'Perspectives of Science and Development in Azerbaijan' award ceremony was recently held in Baku, Azerbaijan. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier Australia releases updated edition of mental health nursing textbook Elsevier Australia has released the third edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, a textbook by Elder, Evans and Nizette. Apart from being packed with new content, the edition reportedly differs from the previous two in its strong emphasis on recovery and preventative mental health strategies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RSC's Dr Antony Williams honoured for his work on the ChemSpider platform The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that Dr Antony Williams, VP for Strategic Development and Head of the Cheminformatics group, for the RSC has been honoured by Microsoft Research for his outstanding contribution to the field of data-intensive computing, especially for his work on the ChemSpider platform. ChemSpider is a freely available chemical structure database that provides fast text and structure search access to data and links for over 28 million chemicals, from hundreds of data sources. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Metapress unveils the Essential platform to support small publishers MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced the Metapress Essential platform to support smaller publishers. This new platform allows small publishers to receive the same features that enable large publishers to launch an online presence and manage content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LCA welcomes court decision in favour of HathiTrust library using digitised works The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) has welcomed Judge Harold Baer's decision saying that the HathiTrust Digital Library's use of digitised works is a fair use permitted under the Copyright Act. Baer's ruling allows HathiTrust to continue serving scholars and the print disabled. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE Open Engineering opens for submissions Academic publisher SAGE has announced that its journal SAGE Open Engineering is now open for submissions. Building on SAGE's expanding portfolio in engineering, SAGE Open Engineering is a new Open Access journal aimed specifically at engineers. 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: Rick Anderson (The Google/AAP Settlement: Less Than Meets the Eye?); David Phipps (Knowledge mobilisation is a social process: Social media can support individuals and organisations in research dissemination); Joseph Esposito (Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive?); Joe Wikert (Gamechangers: Two important announcements at TOC Frankfurt) and Keylingo Translations Blog (The Importance of Life Sciences Translation for Academic Publishing). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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