Knowledgespeak Newsletter

15 July 2013

Nature Communications' and Scientific Reports' submission and publication rates continue to grow rapidly Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that Nature Communications and Scientific Reports are now the fastest growing journals published by NPG. Launched in 2010 and 2011 respectively, both journals reached the milestone of 2000 published papers in June 2013, and their submission and publication rates continue to grow rapidly. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme U.S. Patent and Trademark Office launches Global Patent Search Network The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched the Global Patent Search Network, a free service that will eventually provide translations of patents granted in multiple countries and languages. The agency hopes to make patent research easier and more comprehensive with this move. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Open-access platform Libre set for October launch, academics invited to publish papers and solicit reviews Three academics are set to launch a new open-access platform that they hope will allow researchers to wrest control of peer review from journals and remove academic publishers' justification for charging high prices for their titles. The Libre platform, slated for launch in October, will host open reviews of manuscripts solicited by the authors themselves. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Three new publishers participate in the CLOCKSS digital preservation archive The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of the Philosophy Documentation Center; Reveal Digital; and the Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care. CLOCKSS will preserve their collections in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Registrations now open for ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses 2013 Registration is now open for the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at four ARL member libraries through 2013. ARL and SAA have designed a weeklong immersion in four core courses of the DAS programme for ARL library staff to take alongside their peers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald announces winners of 17th Annual Citation of Excellence Awards Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced the winners of its 2013 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their seventeenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognise the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. 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: Michael Clarke (Why the Apple Ebook Ruling is a Loss for Publishers, Authors, and Readers); Joe Wikert (Why are you surprised by Amazon's pricing fluctuations?); Samuel Moore (Academics: Ask not what Open Access can do for you, but what it can do for your disciplines); Joseph Esposito (What Happens When the Marginal Cost of Content is No Longer Zero?); and Gillian West (Digital content consumers would welcome the option to buy and sell second-hand content). 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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