Knowledgespeak Newsletter

14 December 2012

Version One of new STN available in beta for fixed fee customers The STN partners - CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe - have announced that Version One of the new STN platform is now available in beta for fixed fee customers. The version introduces project-oriented workflow, improved usability and "no limits" search architecture for expert and novice professional searchers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Royal Society of Chemistry acquires The Merck Index The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that The Merck Index will join the highly acclaimed publishing portfolio of the Society. In the agreement with Merck, the Royal Society of Chemistry will take over publication by launching the 15th edition, due out in April. The new edition has been extensively revised and updated. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters re-launches ScienceWatch.com The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the re-launch of ScienceWatch.com, an open, web-based resource dedicated to scientific metrics and research performance analysis. The newly re-launched website has incorporated an innovative tagging system to differentiate content and optimise search results. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The American Physiological Society and The Physiological Society partner with Wiley to launch new OA journal Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., The Physiological Society (TPS) and The American Physiological Society (APS) have announced their partnership to publish the new open access peer-reviewed journal, Physiological Reports, which will launch early next year. Dr. Susan Wray of the University of Liverpool, UK, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer set to publish Computational & Applied Mathematics journal STM publisher Springer will publish the research journal Computational & Applied Mathematics, a primary scientific publication of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics (SBMAC), starting in 2013. Published three times a year, the journal will be available electronically on link.springer.com and in print. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Serials Solutions in deal with five German publishers to index their scholarly content in Summon discovery service Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that the company is working with several eminent German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon discovery service. This German-language content is among the most widely subscribed to by academic institutions in Germany, as well as many libraries worldwide, and includes resources covering law, life sciences and the humanities. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO offers scholarships for librarians to attend 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting Information services provider EBSCO in co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA) has awarded five librarians $1,500 scholarships to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle from January 25-29, 2013. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay on the topic 'The conversation starts here: How would you lead the discussion in your library to bring about meaningful change to an existing process, service, or procedure?' More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UpToDate releases MobileComplete for Android users Healthcare information service provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), has announced that UpToDate, part of WK Health, has released MobileComplete for Android users. A downloadable local version of its free app, UpToDate MobileComplete, is the fastest mobile version of UpToDate, providing clinicians with access to evidence-based, practical recommendations, even offline. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL publishes Organization of Scholarly Communication Services, SPEC Kit 332 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Organization of Scholarly Communication Services, SPEC Kit 332. This SPEC Kit explores how research institutions are currently organising staff to support scholarly communication services, and whether their organisational structures have changed since 2007, when member libraries were surveyed about their scholarly communication education initiatives. 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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