Knowledgespeak Newsletter

9 November 2012

Springer and the Korean Society for Micro and Nano Systems announce publishing partnership STM publisher Springer and the Korean Society for Micro and Nano Systems have announced a partnership to publish a new interdisciplinary journal Micro and Nano Systems Letters (MNSL), beginning in March 2013. As a fully sponsored open access journal, it will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio, available on link.springer.com. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NPG and Labtiva announce ReadCube Access program for affordable single-click purchases and two-day rentals Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced an affordable way to read scientific articles on NPG journals. NPG and software company Labtiva opened to the public a pilot of the ReadCube Access programme for inexpensive single-click purchases and two-day rentals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Utica College selects eBooks on EBSCOhost Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has announced that Utica College has chosen eBooks on EBSCOhost to grow its e-book collection. The college was looking to expand its electronic collection and although they looked at other e-book vendors, the site's familiarity and positive experience with EBSCOhost databases as well the benefits of EBSCO's Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) Program convinced Utica College that eBooks on EBSCOhost was the right fit. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SISSA Medialab to offer full hybrid OA option on journals jointly owned with IOP Publishing Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) and SISSA Medialab have announced that they will be offering a full hybrid open access option on the journals jointly owned with IOP Publishing. With immediate effect, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics and Journal of Instrumentation will offer all authors the option to make their articles open access upon payment of an Article Processing Charge of £1400. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Transitioning of ArchiveGrid database from subscription service to free service currently underway Library information provider OCLC Research has announced that work is currently underway to transition the ArchiveGrid database of archival collection descriptions from a subscription service to a free service on a new interface developed and managed by the organisation. A beta version of the new interface developed by OCLC Research is available at no charge at http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Educational institutions partner with Pearson to adopt EQUELLA digital repository Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, has announced that institutions are choosing the EQUELLA digital repository to easily identify, manage and provide shared access to high quality course content that enhances the learning experience for students, improves outcomes and helps to support accreditation requirements. Content stored within EQUELLA serves more than three million educators and students in North America. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme McGraw-Hill Education' LearnSmart surpasses one million student users McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., has announced that LearnSmart has surpassed one million student users since the product launched in fall 2009. The announcement was made at the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference being held from November 6-9 in Denver. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Library of Medicine launches Web content collecting initiative The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a Web content collecting initiative. The Library is selecting Web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature as well as resources that illustrate a diversity of philosophical and cultural perspectives not found in the technical literature. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on November 12 and 13, 2012, on account of a Local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the November 9th issue. 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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