Knowledgespeak Newsletter

8 October 2012

IET President moots open access for SMEs to IP created by UK universities Professor Andy Hopper has called on the UK government to give small and medium sized businesses open access to the intellectual property created in UK universities. He has been named the new President of European engineers and technicians society, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme University of Florida and the University of Miami libraries sign MoU to create a shared collection The University of Florida and the University of Miami have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create the Collaborative Academic Library Collection. The Collaborative Academic Library Collection is a shared collection that will be housed in Gainesville for long-term preservation and retention of low use or duplicate library materials. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UBM Electronics to conduct one day symposium for Electronics and Design Engineering Marketing professionals at Online Marketing Summit UBM Electronics, a US-based provider of media and marketing solutions for the design engineering and the electronics industry, has announced the 'Marketing to Engineers Symposium,' a one-day symposium targeted to electronics and design engineering marketing professionals. The Symposium will take place on October 22, 2012 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in conjunction with the Online Marketing Summit. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ClinicalTrials site updated to include new style and content, plus easier navigation The National Library of Medicine has announced a new integrated homepage and updated graphic design for its ClinicalTrials.gov database. Users will now have access to new and reorganised content about clinical research, background information about the site, search tools and help for those maintaining study records. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Center for the History of Medicine and MPublishing collaborate to launch digital influenza archives The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine, in partnership with the U-M Library's MPublishing division, has announced the release of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia, an original, open access digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in the US. The collection, located at www.influenzaarchive.org, contains more than 16,000 digitised documents. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Charlesworth Group to represent Henry Stewart Talks in Mainland China The Charlesworth Group has announced that Henry Stewart Talks, the UK producer of the Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection, has appointed the company to represent them in Mainland China. The collection of specially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading scientists has prestigious universities in over 45 countries and most of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies amongst its subscribers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Jack Lynch resigns from Wolters Kluwer's Member Executive Board Professional information services provider Wolters Kluwer has announced that J.J. Lynch, Jr., Member of the Executive Board, has accepted an offer to become CEO of a company in the US software and information industry. As a consequence, Lynch will resign from the Wolters Kluwer Executive Board per November 2012. For the interim, his responsibilities will be taken over by the CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, Nancy McKinstry. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC names Helene Blowers as WorldShare Management Services Community Manager Library information provider OCLC has announced the appointment of Helene Blowers, a library technology leader for more than 15 years, as OCLC WorldShare Management Services Community Manager. Her appointment will be effective November 1. 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 (Does Open Access Tackle, Perpetuate, or Exacerbate the Matthew Effect?); Eve Hardy (Scientific Misconduct, Not Error, Accounts For The Majority Of Article Retractions); Li-Shih Huang (There's a disconnect between "scholarly value" and how we reach audiences who need research); David Wojick (Quantifying OA Complexity) and Barry McIlheney (Publishers look beyond the print v digital debate). 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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