Knowledgespeak Newsletter

2 October 2013

A week before the biggest meeting of the industry, Frankfurt Book Fair Director Juergen Boos talks of a start-up boom that has reached continental Europe At a recent press conference in Berlin, director of the Frankfurt Book Fair Juergen Boos compared the state of international publishing to Germany's 19th century "Gründerzeit" - an age of pioneering entrepreneurship: "2012 was called the 'year of the start-up' in the USA and the UK. Now that spirit has also taken hold in Germany and the rest of Europe." Boos expects this pioneering spirit to be even more intensely palpable at the Book Fair. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ORCID announces project partners for the ORCID A&I Program ORCID has announced the nine project partners who will be participating in the ORCID Adoption and Integration (A&I) Program. The ORCID A&I Program provides external funding for North American universities and science and social science professional associations to integrate ORCID identifiers, supports the elicitation and documentation of use cases and open source code, and establishes a collaborative venue for disseminating best practices. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier and The Geological Society of America collaborate to integrate more than 80,000 maps into Geofacets STM publisher Elsevier and the Geological Society of America (GSA) have announced that geological maps from GSA's leading line of journals and books have been integrated into Geofacets, Elsevier's research tool for geoscientists working in exploration. The collaboration means that geoscientists in subscribing companies from the oil, gas, metals and mining industries can now access an additional 80,000+ peer-reviewed maps and associated metadata from market-leading publications. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Frontiers launches new OA journal in Cell and Developmental Biology Open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of its Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology journal. The journal will constitute an open-science platform for publishing high-quality and rigorously peer-reviewed articles. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer set to publish international journal Academic Psychiatry STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the journal, Academic Psychiatry, beginning January 2014. Springer will publish the journal in partnership with the Association for Academic Psychiatry, American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (the Consortium). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics brings tradition of excellence to new generation of physicians Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced the release of the 34th edition of the Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics, the first edition of the venerable text with full digital interactivity. Written by residents and fellows and reviewed by faculty at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Washington Manual is considered the premiere portable reference for generations of physicians. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO Information Services joins OASPA Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA represents the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines through an exchange of information, setting of industry standards, advancing business and publishing models, advocating for gold OA journals publishing, education and the promotion of innovation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest unveils ProQuest Indian Journals, supports burgeoning Indian research market Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest has introduced a new resource to serve the dramatic growth in academic research in India. ProQuest® Indian Journals, the company's first solution designed specifically for this market, enables researchers from around the world to cross-search and access premier academic journals published entirely in India along with other ProQuest content, all in one step. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IHS to make Maney Materials Science and Engineering Books available via IHS Knowledge Collections IHS, a global source of information and analytics, has announced a partnership with academic publisher Maney Publishing. Under the deal, IHS acquires the ability to resell hundreds of Maney titles in the Materials Science and Engineering subject areas. Maney books can now be purchased, accessed and downloaded as part of the IHS Knowledge Collections. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC acquires Dutch library systems provider HKA Computer library service OCLC has acquired the shares of Huijsmans en Kuijpers Automatisering (HKA), a Dutch organisation that develops, implements and manages systems for libraries, educational and cultural organisations. The addition of HKA, which offers the Wise line of library systems and services, enhances and extends OCLC services for libraries in the Netherlands. 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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