Knowledgespeak Newsletter

24 June 2013

Reed Technology and Information Services launches USPTO public data dissemination site Reed Technology and Information Services, part of the LexisNexis family, has announced the launch of Patents.ReedTech.com, a website that allows users free access to USPTO Patent and Trademark information. The bulk content sets available at the website will be the same as those provided in recent years by the USPTO through Google USPTO Bulk Downloads. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Royal Society of Chemistry journals continue to show Impact Factor growth The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio has once again shown outstanding excellence, with the publication of the latest Impact Factors (IF) report from Thomson Reuters. Six out of the top 20 multidisciplinary chemistry journals are published by the RSC. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SCOAP3 on track to meet target start date of January 1, 2014 The international Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) partnership reaffirmed its commitment to SCOAP3 at a recent meeting in May. The initiative, with the full support of CERN, is now ready to move to its next step - signing contracts with publishers and establishing the consortium. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New IOP Student Science Publication Award to recognise student science writers The Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) has announced the addition of a new award which is being sponsored by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and its publishing company, IOP Publishing. The announcement was made at the recently held Science Writers' Awards in London. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NISO announces new two-phase project to develop standards and recommended practices for altmetrics The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced a new two-phase project to study, propose, and develop community-based standards or recommended practices in the field of alternative metrics. Assessment of scholarship is a critical component of the research process, impacting everything from which projects get funded to who gains promotion and tenure to which publications gain prominence. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Library Assessment Conference 2010 papers featured in EBLIP Fifteen articles about a range of assessment activities in academic libraries are featured in the latest issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP vol. 8, no. 2). An editorial by Martha Kyrillidou and Damon Jaggars summarises the themes of these papers selected from the 2010 Library Assessment Conference proceedings. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cengage Learning appoints Sandi Kirshner as Chief Marketing Officer Cengage Learning, a leading educational content, software and services company, has announced the appointment of Sandi Kirshner as Chief Marketing Officer. In this new role, Kirshner will be responsible for all marketing and communications activities within the company. 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: Joseph Esposito (Disrupting the Faculty: The Changing Face of the College Textbook Business); Casey Bergman (Social media is shaping dialogue between scientists and journals); Heather Morrison (Outsell Open Access Report: missing the main point or are governments really committed to throwing away taxpayer money?);and Rachel Bruce (Academics will need both the physical and virtual library for years to come). 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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