Knowledgespeak Newsletter

21 January 2013

O'Reilly's Tools of Change announces speakers for TOC 2013 conference O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing has announced that leaders in digital publishing will gather at the TOC 2013 conference in New York City on February 12-14. Chairs Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert have added more speakers to the cast of TOC 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RCUK unveils statement to promote equality and diversity in research RCUK has unveiled its new Statement of Expectations for Equality and Diversity, intended to drive rapid cultural change in the management of equality and diversity in institutions receiving Council funding. It seeks to assess whether the equality and diversity policies are working in practice. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central launches Journal of Eating Disorders Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of the Journal of Eating Disorders. This journal launch marks a significant development in this area of research. It claims to be the first open access journal of its kind. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ebrary closes 2012 with more than 100 new publishers signed ebrary, a ProQuest business, is celebrating a pair of significant achievements as 2013 gets underway. This year marks the 10th anniversary of its flagship product, Academic Complete, a scholarly e-book subscription collection, now used in thousands of university libraries worldwide. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC in deal with more publishers worldwide to add e-book metadata to WorldCat Library information provider OCLC has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world to add more e-book metadata to WorldCat, a comprehensive online database of resources available through libraries worldwide. This new WorldCat metadata will be integrated into library management workflows using OCLC's cataloguing services and discoverable by users through a variety of library discovery services, including WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme French group offers comments on EC recommendations on OA publication The EC had issued a recommendation encouraging the Member States to make necessary arrangements to disseminate publicly funded research through OA publication, as soon as possible. French group GFII has informed the government on the preliminary findings of its Working Group on Open Access. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL to host Library Assessment Forum at ALA Midwinter Meeting The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will host a Library Assessment Forum at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting, featuring LibValue research conducted at the University of Tennessee. The forum will be held on January 25, 2013, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in the Sheraton Seattle's Ravenna Room. No registration is necessary to attend this event. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CLS Communication acquires 4-Text in Berlin Language service provider CLS Communication has acquired 4-Text Software-Lokalisierung und technische Übersetzungen GmbH, a Berlin-based quality provider of technical documentation. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The former owners of the company will support the integration phase for an agreed period. 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 (Post-Publication Peer-Review Already Exists, Already Has Incentives, and Is Already Robust); Joe Wikert (Extracting value from uncertain data); Bonnie J. M. Swoger (When journal articles are hard to find); David Wojick (Leaked Data Policy Raises Monster STM Data Issues) and Tim McCormick (From Monograph to Multigraph: the Distributed Book) . Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. 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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