Knowledgespeak Newsletter

8 April 2013

BookBrunch and the London Book Fair launch BookBrunch Award for Supply Chain Customer Service BookBrunch, an information site and daily news service for the book industry, is joining the London Book Fair to launch the BookBrunch Award for Supply Chain Customer Service. The Award aims to highlight ways in which supply chain companies have transformed their working methods to benefit their customers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters to host tranSMART Community meeting The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters will host a tranSMART Community meeting in collaboration with the Pistoia Alliance and the tranSMART Foundation on April 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Thomson Reuters office at 22 Thomson Place, Boston. This meeting will provide attendees with an overview of the tranSMART open-source, community-driven platform. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme McGraw-Hill Education names Ronald Schlosser as Executive Chairman McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., has announced the appointment of Ronald Schlosser as executive chairman of its board of directors. Schlosser is a senior advisor to Apollo Global Management on investments in education, and he has extensive experience as a global business leader, achieving outstanding results at a variety of education and information companies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BISG study reveals correlation between genre preference and reading device selection Multi-function tablets have become consumers' preferred e-reading devices, overtaking dedicated e-readers for the first time, according to the BISG's Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The survey reveals further correlation between device choice and genre preference, with certain fiction genres continuing to dominate on dedicated e-readers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme edX collaborates with Stanford University to offer learning platform via open source Stanford University and edX recently announced their collaboration to advance the development of edX's open source learning platform and provide free and open online learning tools for institutions around the world. edX will release the source code for its entire online learning platform on June 1. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NISO publishes Recommended Practice for Institutional Identifier The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Recommended Practice: Institutional Identification: Identifying Organizations in the Information Supply Chain. This Recommended Practice describes the work done by the NISO Institutional Identifier (I²) Working Group to define the requirements for a standard identifier for institutional identification in the supply chain. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Annual Reviews unveils new journal for animal scientists Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has announced the new Annual Review of Animal Biosciences journal. The journal was created to address the enormous wealth of new knowledge brought about by biotechnology, and the characterisation of the genomes and transcriptomes of domesticated and wild animals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme DeepDyve selects Reprints Desk to expand access to full-text articles Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc. has announced a collaboration with DeepDyve Inc., an online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles. With this agreement, the companies seek to expand access to full-text articles for registered DeepDyve.com users by supplementing DeepDyve's existing article rental and PDF purchasing service with an expanded list of titles for which the full-text can be legally acquired via Reprints Desk. 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 (PubMed Central Reduces Publisher Traffic, Study Shows); Kane Hsieh (Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books?); Evolution News and Views (Will Open-Access Publishing Break the Darwinist Stranglehold?); Kent Anderson (The Lens We Look Through - Are We All About Containers or What Goes Into Them?); and Lukas Koster (Beyond the Library: Researchers and libraries must work together to respond to changes in scholarly communication). 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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