Knowledgespeak Newsletter

20 June 2013

EQT Partners and GIC Special Investments agree to sell Springer Science+Business Media to BC Partners EQT Partners AB (EQT) and GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd (GIC) have agreed to sell their majority stake in Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), a global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher, to the private equity firm BC Partners Limited (BC Partners). The plans for an initial public offering have been cancelled. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters unveils 2013 edition of Journal Citation Reports The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the release of the 2013 edition of its Journal Citation Reports (JCR), an influential resource for evaluating peer-reviewed publications and the source of the annual Journal Impact Factors. The 2013 edition, with separate sections for Science and Social Sciences, features 10,853 journal listings in 232 disciplines; 83 countries are represented. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier launches new OA journal - GeoResJ STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal, GeoResJ. The journal will be the first open access only journal to join Elsevier's earth and planetary science journals portfolio. GeoResJ will be co-edited by six Executive Editors, each covering a different discipline. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Serials Solutions to index metadata from 8,000 ibooks.ru e-book titles Serials Solutions has announced that it is working with the ibooks.ru to index metadata from 8,000 e-book titles covering educational, scientific and business topics. ibooks.ru is an e-library project founded in 2009 by leading Russian publishing houses Piter Publishing House and BHV-Petersburg in close cooperation with the Association of Regional Library Consortia (ARBICON). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health announces suite of local-language search and navigation capabilities for UpToDate Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the launch of Search in Your Own Language, a suite of local-language search and navigation capabilities for UpToDate, an evidence-based, clinical decision support resource. Search in Your Own Language enables clinicians and healthcare enterprises around the world to improve patient care with tools to research clinical questions more quickly and accurately in their native language. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The British Library and Portico partner to preserve thousands of e-journals for future generations The British Library and digital preservation specialist Portico have announced that they will be working together to ensure that thousands of electronic journal titles will be collected, preserved and made available to current and future generations of researchers. Portico will utilise its established workflow and processes to create standardised and uniform journal content that can be exported to the British Library. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Liverpool University Press to make scholarly monograph content available via OUP's UPSO platform Liverpool University Press has announced a partnership with the Oxford University Press to launch Liverpool Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform. Responding to increased demand for online scholarly content, UPSO streamlines the research process by making disparately published monographs easily accessible, highly discoverable and fully cross-searchable via one online platform. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC launches WorldCat Metadata API Computer library service OCLC has launched the new WorldCat Metadata API that will enable member libraries and partners to build and share applications on the OCLC WorldShare Platform for libraries to catalogue their collections in WorldCat. The WorldCat Metadata API is the latest in a series of APIs released by OCLC on the OCLC WorldShare Platform. 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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