Knowledgespeak Newsletter

24 December 2012

Knowledgespeak wishes all its subscribers Merry Christmas & A very Happy New Year British Library welcomes announcement outlining new exceptions to the UK's copyright framework The British Library, the national library of the UK, recently welcomed the announcement by Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, outlining new exceptions to the UK's copyright framework. The exceptions were recommended in the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth, commissioned by the Prime Minister in 2010. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IOP Publishing names Neil Byrne as Senior Regional Corporate Sales Manager for Asia Pacific region Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) has announced the appointment of Neil Byrne as the new Senior Regional Corporate Sales Manager for Asia Pacific. Byrne will take up his role at the beginning of January 2013 and will be based in Sydney, Australia. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme McGraw-Hill Construction's Dodge BuildShare platform named SIIA Content CODiE Award Finalist for Best Business Information Solution McGraw-Hill Construction, a US-based provider of project and product information on the construction industry, has announced that Dodge BuildShare was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for Best Business Information Solution. Serving as the pre-eminent awards programme for the software and information industries, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been honouring excellence for 27 years. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme European Commission launches open data portal in public beta The European Commission has launched its open data portal, announced last year December, in public beta. While the site is already on-line, the EC has requested to not widely circulate the URL yet. The beta launch will be more widely announced in January 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Free PLA webinar recording offers tools to build community e-book awareness The PLA has released the free archive recording of the webinar, 'E-Book Action: Inform and Inspire Your Community.' Projected as an informative webinar, it offers inspiring case studies and practical tips to reach out to community members to enlist their help in improving e-book access. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Amazon Web Services unveils High Storage instances for data intensive applications Amazon Web Services has announced High Storage instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance family optimised for applications requiring fast access to large amounts of data. With large amounts of direct attached storage per instance, the High Storage instances are reportedly ideal for data-intensive applications. 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: Phil Davis (How Much of the Literature Goes Uncited?); Mike Taylor (What does it cost to publish a Gold Open Access article?); Cameron Neylon (Science publishing: Open access must enable open use); and Joseph Esposito (The Slow But Steady March Toward Paid Content). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. Dear Subscribers This is to inform you that the number of articles carried in the newsletter will be fewer than usual, as business activity during this period (Dec 25 - Jan 1, 2012) is relatively low. Also, please note that there will be no newsletter dispatch on Dec 26th and Jan 2nd. We take this opportunity to wish all our subscribers a safe holiday season and a happy new year 2013. Thank you for your continued support during our 9th year of publication. 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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