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25 November 2013

IHS content indexed in the Summon discovery service to include IHS Jane's modules and databases Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with IHS Inc. to expand IHS content indexed in the Summon discovery service to include IHS Jane's modules and databases. With the inclusion of metadata and full text from the IHS Jane's content sets in the Summon index, researchers will now be able to discover information in the defence, security, aerospace and transport sectors alongside their library's other resources. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier and Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Research announce winners of 2013 Algerian Scopus Award STM publisher Elsevier and the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education recently announced the winners of the 2013 Algerian Scopus Awards. The Algerian Scopus Awards program was first launched in 2010 and came to fruition through a joint initiative between Elsevier and the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Research with the aim to foster and encourage Algerian research talent. The selected 12 winners work covers a range of academic disciplines, recognising Algeria's top researchers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health convenes expert panel to explore impact of evidence-based medicine on Canada's healthcare system Wolters Kluwer Health brought together a panel of distinguished physician administrators from Canada's leading healthcare institutions for a series of regional seminars that explored the impact of evidence-based medicine on the country's healthcare system. Entitled 'Advancing the Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine - The Role of Clinical Decision Support in Improving Patient Outcomes,' the invitation-only seminar series took place in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax November 11-14, 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme WorldCat Metadata API powers new enhancements in latest MarcEdit release MarcEdit, the popular free library metadata software suite, includes new functionality that will give OCLC member libraries the ability to contribute and enhance their bibliographic and holdings data within WorldCat while using MarcEdit. The new functionality will provide catalogers with a new way to interact with their OCLC data, as well as provide another option for libraries looking to streamline their metadata workflows. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UA Libraries join HathiTrust The University of Alabama has become one of the latest partners of Hathitrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership currently comprising more than 60 partners. 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 (The Natural Limits of Gold Open Access); Stevan Harnad ("Our Mind's Made Up: Don't Confuse Us With Facts"); Claire Armitstead (Ebooks need more attention from their publishers); Kent Anderson (Seeing Beyond Transparency - Do Disclosure Rules Blunt the Need for Actual Ethics?); and Filip Vostal (Should academics adopt an ethic of slowness or ninja-like productivity? In search of scholarly time). 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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