Knowledgespeak Newsletter

4 November 2013

Onsite and virtual registration for NFAIS workshop 'Open Access to Published Research: Current Status and Future Directions' now open The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a one-day workshop on November 22, 2013. This workshop 'Open Access to Published Research: Current Status and Future Directions' will take a look at the current state of open access to published research and the significant social, financial, technical and legislative forces that are driving it. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ACS Publications expands open access publishing options Scientific journal publisher ACS Publications has announced a far-reaching expansion of its open access publishing options - including a major new open access journal, more licensing choices for authors and a stimulus program to support authors who select ACS journals when seeking to publish their work open access. The four major components of the Society's expanded portfolio of open access options include ACS Central Science, ACS Editors' Choice, ACS Author Rewards and Expanded ACS AuthorChoice. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Russia's International Biotechnology Center Generium in deal with Elsevier to gain access to ScienceDirect and Embase STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Russia's International Biotechnology Center (IBC) Generium, has signed an agreement to grant access to ScienceDirect and Embase for its scientists. Access to ScienceDirect and Embase supports the company's strategy to maintain its leading position in Russia in generic drug development and innovate in biotechnological therapies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Library of Sweden to index Swedish National Bibliography in Serials Solutions' Summon discovery service Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with the National Library of Sweden to index the Swedish National Bibliography in the Summon discovery service. With the inclusion of the Swedish National Bibliographic Database in the Summon index, researchers will now be able to discover references to books and materials published in Sweden alongside their library's other resources. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OUP set to launch new open access journal, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, in 2014 Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its partnership with Duke University, Harvard Law School, and Stanford University to launch a new open access journal in 2014 - Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB). JLB is projected to become the preeminent outlet to publish cutting-edge scholarship wherever law and the biosciences intersect. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Semantic Web Journal launches first version of Linked-Data Driven and Semantically Enabled Journal Platform The Semantic Web Journal, published by IOS Press, has launched the first version of its Linked-Data Driven and Semantically Enabled Journal Platform (SEJP). The portal publishes a wide variety of data that are obtained from the journal's unique and open review process. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Keith Pfeffer joins Harvard Business Review Press as Associate Publisher Keith Pfeffer has joined Harvard Business Review Press as Associate Publisher. He was formerly Senior Sales Director, Digital and Print Group Sales at McGraw-Hill Professional. During his tenure at McGraw-Hill Professional, Pfeffer led all ebook, print, and print-on-demand sales activities and oversaw Sales Managers in National Accounts, Field, and Special Markets. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Publishing Technology Director for Dartmouth Journal Services, Mary McRae, appointed to NISO's Standing Committee for JATS The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Standing Committee for Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) has invited Sheridan's Mary McRae to serve on the committee. McRae, who joined Dartmouth Journal Services as Director of Publishing Technology in 2012, has served on numerous technical committees focused on developing standardised markup vocabularies including DocBook, DITA, and Open Document Format. 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: Kent Anderson (Should the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) Stop Using PMC As Its Publishing Platform?); Joe Wikert (Byliner and the art of curation); Bonnie Swoger (You can't read just one: Reproducibility and multiple sources); Joseph Esposito (A Snapshot of the Scientific and Technical Publishing Market): and Paul Benneworth (Exploratory analysis of researcher behaviour challenges the assumption that STEM subjects are more societally useful than SSH). 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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