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9 December 2013

Elsevier launches new journal - Mental Health & Prevention STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new journal, Mental Health & Prevention. The international journal will publish high quality reviews, original research and other papers related to research on prevention to support the psychological development across the complete life span. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New OA journal from the American Geophysical Union and Wiley publishes first articles The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and publisher Wiley have announced that Earth's Future, a new open access journal, has published its first group of articles. Created to reflect the risks and opportunities associated with environmental changes and challenges, the journal features primary research across disciplines and seeks to connect it to policy through editorials, essays, reviews, and other commentary pieces. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health' Customer Support team receives certification as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal for the fourth time Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that its Customer Support organisation for its Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins businesses received certification for the fourth time as a Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal, the global leader in support center benchmarking. The Technical Services team has been recognized again with this award for 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Library Community encourages FCC to make materials accessible via FDsys The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently joined others in the library community in a letter requesting that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) make its primary legal materials and publicly available comments accessible via the Government Printing Office (GPO) Federal Digital System, FDsys. The letter cites the fact that FDsys remained accessible during the prolonged government shutdown in October, giving the public access to such government information as the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, and bills and laws. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wellcome Library signs up for new OA pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched The Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. By participating in the KU pilot scheme, the Wellcome Library will join other libraries and publishers in collaborating towards a sustainable open future for specialist books. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UMass Amherst Libraries join HathiTrust partnership The UMass Amherst Libraries has become one of the newest partners of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. As HathiTrust members, UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff will have access to more than 3.5 million public domain books. 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 (Tip of the Iceberg - How the Illusion of Products Can Mislead Customers About the Realities of Business); Stevan Harnad ("Nudging" researchers toward Gold Open Access will delay the shift to wider access of research); Joseph Esposito (How PLoS ONE Can Have It All); Peter Sergo (Medical Journals Fail To Publish Half Of Drug Studies In Federal Registry, Weakening Evidence-Based Medicine); and Matthew Brady (Why do young readers prefer print to ebooks?). 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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