Knowledgespeak Newsletter

18 March 2013

Elsevier Australia releases textbook on health science statistics Elsevier Australia has announced a new local publication titled Vital Statistics: an introduction to health science statistics. The book is projected to help the nation's health science students to understand the whys, hows and whens of health science statistics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Serials Solutions unveils Summon 2.0, raises the bar for web-scale discovery Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has introduced Summon 2.0 creating another historical milestone for library discovery services. Optimised for academic research, Summon 2.0 represents groundbreaking features and a new, modern interface for the Summon discovery service that will resonate with users familiar with open web search engines. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Taylor & Francis Open Access survey explores authors views on OA publishing and their level of involvement Taylor & Francis' Research and Business Intelligence Department recently conducted a survey of the Taylor & Francis author community for their views on Open Access publishing and their level of involvement with it. This survey, circulated in the final weeks of 2012 leading into early 2013, received over 14,700 responses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IEEE Spectrum wins third Grand Neal Award IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the IEEE, has received the coveted Grand Neal Award during the recently held Association of Business Information & Media Companies' (ABM) 59th Annual Jesse H. Neal Awards ceremony at Pier Sixty in New York City. This is IEEE Spectrum's third Grand Neal Award, and it is the only publication in the last 20 years to have achieved this distinction. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cloud Connect announces expanded lineup of keynote speakers for Silicon Valley event Cloud Connect, an event produced by UBM Tech, has announced the expanded lineup of keynote speakers, including Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Margaret Dawson of HP Cloud Services. In addition, DEPLOYCON, presented by Rishidot Research LLC, is a new one-day conference presented in conjunction with Cloud Connect covering the expanding theme of platform as a service (PaaS). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SirsiDynix announces robust growth in customer base Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced that 88 new library customers migrated to SirsiDynix Symphony in 2012. SirsiDynix CEO Bill Davison welcomed the new customers into the growing SirsiDynix library community during the keynote session of COSUGI, the largest user conference of SirsiDynix customers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC Research, Pennsylvania University to hold event, 'MOOCS and Libraries' OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania have announced an event named 'MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?' on March 18-19. The event will feature presentations about how libraries are already getting involved with MOOCs, and hold discussions about opportunities and challenges going forward. 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 (Whoops! Are Some Current Open Access Mandates Backfiring on the Intended Beneficiaries?); Joe Wikert (Used ebooks: Why your assumptions are wrong and the opportunity is huge); Heather Morrison (A problem with CC-BY: permitting downstream use with no strings attached is the toll access model); Kevin L. Smith (Blog Topic - Publishing Ethics and Platform Neutrality | Peer to Peer Review); and Natalia Madjarevic, Dave Puplett, and Neil Stewart (How institutional repositories are already working to solve the Open Access problem). 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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