Knowledgespeak Newsletter

14 February 2013

Scope wins Most Innovative Program Award at NASSCOM Corporate Awards for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has been honoured as the winner of the Most Innovative Program Award at the NASSCOM Corporate Awards for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion - 2012. The jury, comprising eminent members from NASSCOM and the Industry, followed an extremely rigorous process for evaluating the participants across categories and selecting the final winners. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC Research-RLUK survey examines special collections practices in UK and Ireland OCLC Research and RLUK have collaborated to survey the special collections practices of RLUK members and OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions in the UK and Ireland. The findings from this survey as well as the resulting recommendations have just been published in a report. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Bowker and Vook partner to offer e-book creation and distribution services Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate, has announced a partnership with Vook to enrich the offerings available on Bowker's acclaimed MyIdentifiers.com site. In addition to accessing Bowker's ISBN and metadata services on MyIdentifiers.com, authors will now be able to purchase Vook's ebook production and distribution solutions, all from one location. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme JISC, British Library invite participants to open data summit in London The JISC and British Library are calling for registrations for the last 15 places to take part in an international discovery summit, slated for February 21-22 in London. This two day summit is also open for online attendance. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Serials Solutions' Summon discovery service receives Most Innovative Technology of the Year award Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that its Summon discovery service was awarded the Most Innovative Technology of the Year at the Asia Digital Publishing Summit and Awards (ADPSA), organised by the Consultancy. The award recognises companies who have demonstrated an unparalleled ability to succeed and have continually set standards of excellence. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Confederation of Open Access Repositories launches COAR Repository Observatory The Confederation of Open Access Repositories has launched the new COAR Task Force 'Repository Observatory' (RO) on the COAR website. The aim of this project will be the identification of trends and future scenarios in the context of the use of repositories in research and education as well as to help OA repositories to anticipate and respond to the constant state of rapid evolution. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CCC named one of '10 to Watch' in the Open Access space Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has been named one of '10 to Watch' in Outsell's first Open Access Market Report. CCC provides solutions to help publishers manage variable Open Access models through its RightsLink platform, which supports unique pricing rules, licenses and messaging for Open Access journals to encourage compliance with funding agency requirements. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Inaugural issue of Big Data journal to be launched at Strata conference in Santa Clara Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced that Big Data, the new, open access, peer-reviewed journal, will launch its inaugural issue at the Strata conference in Santa Clara, CA, February 26-28, 2013. Spearheaded by Editor-in-Chief, Edd Dumbill, principal analyst for O'Reilly Radar, the journal will address the complicated questions surrounding the powerful and growing field of data discovery. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme iPublishCentral 4.1 offers enhanced features for reading eBooks on mobile devices Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys has announced the release of iPublishCentral 4.1, the latest version of its award-winning digital publishing software for publishers. iPublishCentral is a comprehensive platform that allows publishers to warehouse, deliver, distribute, market and sell their eBooks without making significant capital or engineering resource investments on their own. 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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