Knowledgespeak Newsletter

13 January 2014

Research spending in SSH subjects is one-tenth of what governments and private foundations dedicate to STM discovery, says Simba report Media industry forecast and analysis firm Simba Information has announced the publication of its latest report - Global Social Science and Humanities Publishing 2013-2014. According to the report, playing second fiddle to scientific, technical and medical (STM) research is hurting social science and humanities (SSH) fields and, by extension, the market for publishing its findings. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central and Chilean Biology Society partner to publish Biological Research Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Biological Research, the official journal of the Chilean Biology Society (Sociedad de Biología de Chile) has joined the BioMed Central portfolio in 2014. Originally named Archivos de Biología y Medicina Experimentales, Biological Research was founded in 1964. For 49 years the journal has been dedicated to publishing articles across the scope of experimental biology. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE announces new editors for Urban Affairs Review journal Academic publisher SAGE has announced the appointment of Jered Carr of University of Missouri, Kansas City, Peter Burns of Loyola University of New Orleans, Annette Steinacker of Loyola University of Chicago, and Antonio Tavares of University of Minho, Portugal as the new Editors-in-Chief of Urban Affairs Review (UAR). Originally Urban Affairs Quarterly, UAR is SAGE's first publication and will publish its 50th volume in January of 2014. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Library Copyright Alliance submits comments on copyright reform to Commerce Department On January 8, the Library Copyright Alliance submitted additional comments on the US Department of Commerce "green paper," Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (PDF), following a public meeting held by the Commerce Department in December. The post-meeting comments focus on four issues: the recent fair use court decision in the case Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens, digital preservation, remixes, and collective rights organisations. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Neil Spooner appointed Senior Editor of Bioanalysis International journal Bioanalysis has announced the appointment of Neil Spooner (GlaxoSmithKline, UK) as a Senior Editor. He replaces Howard Hill (Huntingdon Life Sciences, UK) who is retiring after 5 years' highly valued service. Dr Spooner joins US-based Senior Editor Brian Booth (US FDA, MD, USA). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme De Gruyter announces reorganisation of its imprints Academic publishing house De Gruyter has announced the reorganisation of its imprints following the successful integration of Akademie and Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. As of January 2014, all titles in the fields of history, economics, computer science, and German-language engineering will be published under the 'De Gruyter Oldenbourg' brand. In addition, titles that are produced in cooperation with a scientific academy will appear under the 'De Gruyter Akademie Forschung' imprint. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Portico and Knowledge Unlatched announce preservation agreement Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced an agreement with Knowledge Unlatched to preserve the latter's Pilot Collection of Open Access e-books in the Portico Archive. The Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection includes 28 new books from 13 recognised scholarly publishers. 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 (When Paid Scientific Articles Were Legally Considered "Advertisements"); Sarah Callaghan (Data Citation and Sharing: What's in it for me?); David Crotty (Indirect Economic Impacts of Public Access Policies for Journals); and Steve Caplan (Why we are not ready for radical changes in science publishing). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 14, 2014 on account of a Local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January 13th issue. 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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