Knowledgespeak Newsletter

13 December 2012

Siberian Regional Universities Consortium in deal with Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect and Scopus STM publisher Elsevier has announced its official collaboration with the Siberian Regional Universities Consortium, providing 9 universities in Central Siberia with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus beginning in 2013. This will provide Siberian researchers with access to research literature from around the world, allowing them to stay abreast of scientific developments in their field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer and the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology announce publishing partnership STM publisher Springer and the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB) have agreed to a five-year partnership to publish the Journal of Ultrasound, starting in 2013 with Volume 16. The journal will be available exclusively in electronic format on SpringerLink. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Knovel partners with Engineers Without Borders USA Knovel, provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, has announced a partnership with Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA). EWB-USA is a non-profit humanitarian organisation established to support community-driven development programmes worldwide through partnerships that design and implement sustainable engineering projects. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme InnoCentive and Scientific American partner to facilitate open innovation Science magazine Scientific American and InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, have announced a partnership for an online hub that seeks to help science enthusiasts solve global scientific problems. The Scientific American Open Innovation Pavilion, scheduled to go live in the spring of 2013, will be jointly hosted on InnoCentive.com and ScientificAmerican.com. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IEEE forms 802.24 Smart Grid Technical Advisory Group IEEE has formed the IEEE 802.24 Smart Grid Technical Advisory Group. The entity is a collaborative umbrella organisation that works with multiple IEEE 802 working groups and will liaise with key smart grid ecosystem stakeholders, such as regulatory agencies, other standards development bodies and industry organisations. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IHS iSuppli report predicts significant fall in e-book readers market After spectacular growth in the last few years, the e-book reader market is on a precipitous decline, sent reeling by nimble tablet devices that have gained the ardent patronage of consumers, according to an IHS iSuppli Consumer Electronics special report from information and analytics provider IHS. Shipments of e-book readers by year-end will fall to 14.9 million units, down a steep 36 percent from the 23.2 million units in 2011 that now appears to have been the peak of the e-book reader market, the report says. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme La Pérouse Library of Ifremer selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services and WorldCat Local Library information provider OCLC has announced that the La Pérouse Library of Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea, has chosen OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its new library management solution and WorldCat Local as its integrated discovery service. Preparations for implementation of both services at Ifremer are already under way. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL to host Ninth Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will host its Ninth Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science (MLIS) students on January 26 and 27, 2013, in Seattle, Washington. The Leadership Symposium curriculum will focus on topics related to the major strategic areas of ARL, as well as transitioning into, and building career networks in, research libraries. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cengage Learning names Kevin Stone as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Cengage Learning, US-based provider of teaching, learning and research solutions, has announced the appointment of Kevin Stone as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. He will be based in Boston, MA, and will be responsible for all aspects of Sales and Marketing across the company, which will be integrated into one team under his new leadership role. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 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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