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21 October 2013

Thomson Reuters announces addition of Clinical Trials Intelligence to the Cortellis suite The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the addition of Clinical Trials Intelligence to the Thomson Reuters Cortellis suite, a comprehensive information solution for drug discovery and development. Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence enables users to access and search information on more than 140,000 U.S. and global trials for biologics, diagnostics, biomarkers, medical devices and drugs targeting rare diseases. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier announces official collaboration with the National Natural Science Foundation of China STM publisher Elsevier has announced its official collaboration with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the central governing body for science and technology funding in China. With an official memorandum of understanding (MoU) in place, Elsevier will undertake to provide services to NSFC to help the organisation optimise the utilisation and disbursement of research funds for projects. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central announces various events to mark 6th year of Open Access Week Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced various events to mark the 6th year of Open Access Week, which begins today (October 21). Open Access Week is a global event to increase awareness of the benefits of open access publishing, and give people the opportunity to discuss and share their views on the topic. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New SPIE open access publishing program wins strong participation SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that an author-choice open access publishing program for journals, launched earlier this year, is gaining strong participation from authors and increasing the volume of freely accessible, peer-reviewed optics and photonics research literature as a result. According to Eric Pepper, SPIE Director of Publications, more than six times as many authors are choosing open-access publication in SPIE journals since the launch of the 'gold' open access program. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Swets and Decision Support in Medicine partner to launch a point of care tool featuring 28 specialty programs Information services provider Swets in partnership with Decision Support in Medicine, LLC., has launched Decision Support in Medicine (DSM). DSM is a point of care tool featuring 28 specialty programs designed to zero in on the most pertinent information during patient interactions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Library of New Zealand reduces costs by moving Te Puna Interloan service to OCLC The National Library of New Zealand is working with OCLC to improve interlibrary lending and reduce costs by moving the infrastructure of the national Te Puna Interloan network to the hosted version of OCLC's VDX resource sharing system. OCLC's VDX document delivery and management system fully automates the requesting and supply of books and journal articles for libraries that use the Te Puna Interloan system. 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: David Wojick (US Federal Open Access Rulemakings To Come); Abby Olena (Useless Peer Review?); Barbara Fister (Show Your Work | Peer to Peer Review); David Crotty (A New Science Blogging Scandal: Deja Vu All Over Again); and Ernesto Priego (The transition towards fairer access to research requires a wider transformation of academic culture). 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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