Knowledgespeak Newsletter

14 January 2013

Thieme E-Book Library now available to institutional customers for the iPad STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group has announced that the collection of Thieme's acclaimed E-Book Library is now available to institutional customers for the iPad. With the free iPublishCentral reader app, end-users within an institutional license can download all titles in the Thieme E-Book Library to their iPads and read them anywhere they want, even without an internet connection. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Taylor & Francis and IIE publish first issue of IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors journal Publisher Taylor & Francis and The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) will publish IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics & Human Factors in 2013. IIE TOEHF is 'a journal by and for ergonomics and human factors researchers and practitioners' and seeks to promote new and important knowledge dealing with theory, technology, application, and practice pertaining to this field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme University of North Carolina's library and BioMed Central partner to archive faculty research The University of North Carolina's library and open access publisher BioMed Central have announced a collaboration as a result of which nearly 800 journal articles by UNC researchers will now enjoy greater visibility. Every time BioMed Central publishes an article by a UNC affiliate, the article loads automatically to the Library's Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AAUP publishes revised Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has published a revised version of the 1973 joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians. The statement calls for the granting of faculty status to librarians involved in teaching and research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Jisc in deal to preserve and host Vital subject portals The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) has finalised an agreement to preserve and host the Vital subject portals, an invaluable resource for schools. From April 1, 2013, management of the established subject and special interest portals will move from The Open University. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NIH to recruit Associate Director for Data Science National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis S. Collins has announced plans to recruit a new senior scientific position, the Associate Director for Data Science. The associate director will lead a series of NIH-wide strategic initiatives that collectively aim to capitalise on the exponential growth of biomedical research data, such as from genomics, imaging, and electronic health records. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ibmec selects Blackboard for online and mobile learning Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc. has announced that it has been selected by Ibmec, one of the leading teaching and research institutions in Latin America, as a strategic partner in online learning. The institution will now use Blackboard's LMS, mobile learning, Web collaboration and managed hosting solutions at all of its institutions across Brazil. 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 (Have Journal Prices Really Increased Much in the Digital Age?); Joe Wikert (Length and spine width in a digital-first world); Alice Meadows (The Historians Are Revolting - Leading History Journal Editors Take on the Research Councils UK); and Sarah Lester (Researching research: New skills of targeting audiences and networking are now necessary to create impact). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 15, 2013, on account of a Local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Wednesday, January 16, 2013. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January 14th 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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