Knowledgespeak Newsletter

23 May 2013

Scope to participate at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that Rich Kobel, Associate Vice President of Business Development at Scope, will moderate a session titled "Enhancing Discoverability of Book Content" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) to be held in San Francisco from June 5-7, 2013. The session will address some of the challenges book publishers face in transitioning to an online content business model. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Plastics Engineering e-book collection now available on ScienceDirect STM publisher Elsevier and Hanser Publishers, the premier publisher of plastics technology and applied materials titles, have announced that the companies will offer plastics researchers and engineers a new plastics e-book collection on ScienceDirect. Plastics Engineering from Hanser on ScienceDirect includes more than 55 titles from leading authors. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO Information Services and EBSCO Publishing businesses to merge EBSCO Industries, Inc. has announced that the EBSCO Information Services (EIS) and EBSCO Publishing (EP) businesses will merge on July 1, 2013, and will operate as a single business under the name EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Tim Collins, a 26-year EBSCO veteran and previously President of EBSCO Publishing, will serve as President of the combined entity. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Optimal Medicine and Wiley collaborate to enhance a new clinical decision support solution for mental health disorders Optimal Medicine and publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. have announced their collaboration on mehealthT, an online clinical decision support for mental health disorders. mehealthT enables clinicians to provide patient-centric care, informed by evidence-based guidance from the most respected sources of clinical guidelines and knowledge, and will include Wiley's international best-selling clinical reference. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL, Coalition support NSF merit review process The Association of Research Libraries joined 109 other organisations as part of the Coalition for National Science Funding in a letter to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, as well as the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. In their letter, the organisations expressed concern about recent Congressional actions that call into question the NSF merit review process for awarding research grants. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ACSESS, Inc. to preserves with CLOCKSS Archive The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that ACSESS, Inc. is participating in the archive to preserve their full-text Digital Library in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a "trigger event" and ensures an author's work will be maximally accessible and useful over time. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AIAA and PCG announce new sales representation arrangement in North America and Latin America The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has partnered with Publishers Communication Group (PCG) on a new sales representation arrangement in North America and Latin America. In this exclusive agreement, PCG will manage sales of the publisher's journals, journal archives, meeting papers, and ebook content for all institutional accounts on the two continents. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Globe University selects VitalSource Bookshelf platform to launch e-learning solutions Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, has announced that Globe University has selected its VitalSource Bookshelf platform to launch e-learning solutions to educators and students throughout the Globe University system. Globe University is a comprehensive system of career colleges, universities and training centers that includes Broadview University and Minnesota School of Business. 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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