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31 March 2014

Scope seminar at London Book Fair 2014 to focus on "Content Discoverability – Emerging Trends & Challenges in Technology Adoption" Scope e-Knowledge Center, a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, will be offering a seminar entitled "Content Discoverability – Emerging Trends & Challenges in Technology Adoption" on April 10, 2014 from 12.00 – 12.20 PM at Tech Theatre, EC2, at the upcoming London Book Fair. Deborah Harman, Associate Vice President, Business Development, UK & Europe, will explore the challenges in technology adoption and the need for subject matter expert human intervention to create accurate and consistent descriptive metadata for reliable and relevant semantic enrichment for enhanced knowledge discovery. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme First ever Conference on Open Access and Scholarly Publishing in Asia to begin June 2 The first ever Conference on Open Access and Scholarly Publishing in Asia (COASP Asia) will begin June 2, 2014. Discussions will focus on open access publishing as a global industry with a key focus on Asia as an emerging market. The conference aims to provide a forum in which speakers and delegates can share their thoughts and best practices from all aspects of the field including OA policies, advocacy and the development of OA journals in Asia. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier launches new OA journal - Schizophrenia Research: Cognition STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, a new open access journal dedicated to publishing original research, concise research reports, brief reports, letters to the editor, and review papers addressing the role of cognitive functioning in schizophrenia. Dr. Philip D. Harvey will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Australia continues to perform strongly in earth and environmental sciences Australia retained the third place in the Asia-Pacific region, with its greatest strengths still in earth and environmental sciences, according to the Nature Publishing Index 2013 Asia-Pacific released as a supplement to Nature. The country improved its NPI score by almost every measure, with the second highest level of international collaboration in the region. Its contribution to Nature journals grew by more than 50 percent in 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme British Library welcomes new exceptions to copyright The Intellectual Property Office has issued five draft statutory instruments on exceptions to copyright, following the Government's 2010 review of intellectual property law, Digital Opportunity. The British Library welcomes the new exceptions, which will bring significant benefits for library users across the UK, and will support research, innovation and economic growth. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IMLS, Sloan Foundation jointly award ARL $1 million grant to develop and launch SHARE Notification Service The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Notification Service. SHARE is a collaborative initiative of ARL, the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to ensure the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research findings and reports. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Health and Social Care Information Centre and BMJ Informatica sign agreement for GP software Health and Social Care Information Centre ('HSCIC') has signed an agreement with BMJ Informatica to provide its patient check-in, online appointments and clinical decision support services through the new GP Systems of Choice (GPSoc) Framework. The Framework, procured on behalf of NHS England, replaces the existing arrangement in April 2014 and will improve choice and help practices deliver care efficiently and successfully. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NetAdvance and OCLC to add metadata from JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and NetAdvance are working together to add metadata from the JapanKnowledge and JK Books collections to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive online catalogue of library resources, increasing discovery and access to these rich Japanese-language resources. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Annual Reviews launches new journal - Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has announced the launch of a new journal - Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. The purpose of this journal is to provide distinctive reviews across the range of topics in industrial and organisational psychology, human resources management, and organisational behaviour, summarising significant developments in the field. 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: Rick Anderson (CC-BY, Copyright, and Stolen Advocacy); Bonnie Swoger (Post publication peer-review: Everything changes, and everything stays the same); Char Miller (Open Access as Undergraduate Pedagogy | Backtalk); Limor Peer (Mind the gap in data reuse: Sharing data is necessary but not sufficient for future reuse); and David Smith (The Measurement of the Thing: Thinking About Metrics, Altmetrics and How to Beat Goodhart's Law). 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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28 March 2014

Scopus launches Cited References Expansion Program for archival content STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Scopus has launched its Cited References Expansion Program to include cited references in its database going back to 1970 for pre-1996 content. In addition to increasing the depth of Scopus' scholarly content, including cited references for pre-1996 content will make citation data more accurate, therefore expanding the ability for users to perform long-term, extensive bibliometric and historic trend analyses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters releases analysis of global trademark trends in its third-annual State of Trademarks Report: Global Insights on Trademark Trends Thomson Reuters CompuMark, a Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business, has released its analysis of global trademark trends in its third-annual State of Trademarks Report: Global Insights on Trademark Trends. The report tracks trademark activity across 186 countries, covering nearly 4-and-a-half-million marks published across all classes in 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Japan remains major scientific power in Asia-Pacific Japan remains the major scientific power in Asia-Pacific, despite China nipping at its heels. This is according to the Nature Publishing Index (NPI) 2013 Asia-Pacific published as a supplement to Nature. Japan, which is overcoming the impacts of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, with the help of a US$1.8 billion science stimulus package, continues to lead the Asia-Pacific NPI in physics, life sciences and earth and environmental sciences. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Spain's Health Ministry launches UpToDate clinical decision support for doctors nationwide Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Spain's Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality has launched UpToDate, providing more than 260,000 healthcare professionals in the Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS), Spain's national health system, with access to its clinical decision support resource. With UpToDate, physicians, nurses, pharmacists and ministry professionals at 305 SNS hospitals, primary care centers, nursing homes, hospice care centers and psychiatric hospitals can access trusted, evidence-based medical information. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CTB/McGraw-Hill appoints Craig Mills as vice president of Research CTB/McGraw-Hill, one of the nation's leading educational assessment partners, has appointed Craig Mills as vice president of Research. Dr. Mills will lead CTB's research activities and oversee more than 55 research professionals, psychometricians, statisticians, and educational measurement specialists. Dr. Mills will be instrumental in advancing CTB's contributions to the field of educational measurement and deepening its online and adaptive testing capabilities. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ten institutions from the Netherlands and Switzerland join Portico Portico, a digital preservation service for electronic journals, books, and digitized historical collections, has announced that members of Netherland's SURFmarket and Switzerland's Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries have joined Portico. With the addition of these institutions, more than half of Portico's library participants are now located outside of the United States. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald Group Publishing becomes official media partner of World Research and Innovation Congress – Pioneers in Healthcare Global academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing is the official media partner of the World Research and Innovation Congress (WRIC) – Pioneers in Healthcare', for the second consecutive year. The event will bring together healthcare academics to address key issues affecting research developments in the sector, such as international collaboration, funding and patients as research stakeholders. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Penton forms Penton SmartReach division Professional information services company Penton formally announced that it has formed Penton SmartReachTM, a division focusing exclusively on the development, management and delivery of targeted data and subscriber information to help direct marketers identify, reach and activate more prospects and generate more effective leads. The database has 16 million business-to-business records, representing 7.8 million unique businesses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Document delivery performance bolstered with Reprints Desk's completed CrossRef digital object identifier project Reprints Desk, Inc. has announced the completion of an information systems and technology project for assimilating more than 40 million digital object identifiers (DOIs) from CrossRef Metadata Services into the content transaction engine that powers the company's Article Galaxy document delivery management system. CrossRef assigns DOIs to millions of scholarly documents. These CrossRef DOIs provide unique identifiers and persistent links to journal articles and book chapters on the internet. 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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