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29 January 2014

Registrations for 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference still open The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that registrations are now being accepted for the 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference, Giving Voice to Content: Re-envisioning the Business of Information. The event is scheduled for February 23 - 25, 2014, at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest release of Price Rx includes NADAC pricing information and additional user enhancements Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Price Rx® v2.2 now features NADAC pricing information and several other key enhancements, helping to save users valuable time in research and reporting for selected drug products. Price Rx customers now have the ability to quickly reference the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), the newly published national pricing benchmark from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), directly from within the Price Rx application for a given drug product. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer Science+Business Media acquires Planète Permis SAS STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has acquired the French publisher of driving school materials, Planète Permis SAS, based in Gertwiller (Alsace), France. The acquisition complements the existing driving school and road safety publishing activities of Springer. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme American University of Kuwait selects EBSCO Information Services as e-book supplier for 2014 The American University of Kuwait (AUK), an independent, private and coeducational liberal arts institution of higher education, has selected EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) as its e-book supplier for 2014. AUK is a long-time EBSCO customer and they subscribe to many EBSCOhost® databases. Being able to search e-books alongside databases will be a huge benefit to the university. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme McGraw-Hill Professional and RelayHealth partner to provide patient education resources on AccessMedicine platforms McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced that its premier online medical platform, AccessMedicine, now offers more than 7,000 downloadable patient monographs in nine languages through a partnership with RelayHealth. RelayHealth, McKesson's connectivity business, provides solutions to enable constituents across healthcare to exchange information securely and conveniently. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Informa's Taylor & Francis extends Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year pilot scheme, first introduced in 2011, has now been extended for at least a further year to enable Routledge to consider alternative approaches to copyright and to find sustainable ways of extending author rights. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BISG announces new research initiative to study subscription models of selling published content The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has announced a major new research initiative to study subscription models of selling published content. Given the success of digital subscription services in the film, television, and music industries, publishing industry stakeholders have wondered how and when these services will affect book content distribution. While the range of possible models is vast, it is unclear whether the current needs and trends suggest a "Netflix" model with a deep and broad catalogue or whether more focused verticals will continue to develop. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IET's Inspec database adds 14 millionth record Inspec, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) database of cutting-edge science and engineering research, has indexed its 14 millionth record, highlighting the IET's commitment to making essential, high-quality scientific and technological intelligence easily available to an international audience. The article is published in the Journal of Engineering in Medicine, published by SAGE on behalf of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Bibliothek am Guisanplatz in Switzerland goes live with Ex Libris Alma and Primo Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Bibliothek am Guisanplatz (BiG) in Switzerland has gone live with the Primo discovery and delivery solution and the next-generation Alma resource management service. Bibliothek am Guisanplatz - the leading library of the Alexandria Library Network - is using Ex Libris solutions to transform the management of its vast collections and to expose and deliver those collections to federal employees, military personnel, scholars, and the public. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Affordable, open access publishing now available to biological and medical science researchers UK universities will now be able to centrally fund their researchers' publication plans for biological and medical sciences journal PeerJ following an agreement with Jisc. This will allow authors to publish articles in the journal for free, for life. With the new arrangement, institutions pre-pay for publication plans and individuals take advantage of that pre-payment when they come to publish. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme GEN Grupo Editorial Nacional selects Ingram's Vital Source for e-content distribution and support Ingram Content Group Inc. has announced that GEN Grupo Editorial Nacional (Grupo GEN), a scientific, technical and professional publisher group in Brazil, has selected its Vital Source solution for e-textbook and digital content production, management and distribution. Grupo GEN has plans to make more than 3,500 titles available digitally to consumers, and thousands of titles have already been converted to e-textbook format by Vital Source. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 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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