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30 April 2014

Nature Publishing Group expands Nature family of research journals with the launch of Nature Plants Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has introduced the newest member of the Nature family of research journals: Nature Plants. Launching in January 2015, Nature Plants will be the first journal in the field to focus on excellence in research across the plant sciences, building upon the cross-disciplinary model established by Nature Climate Change. The journal is now accepting submissions, with more information available at: http://www.nature.com/nplants/. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE membership of OASPA reinstated following six-month review Academic publisher SAGE has welcomed the announcement by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) that its membership of OASPA has been reinstated in full, following a six month review period. In October 2013, OASPA's Membership Committee placed SAGE's membership under review as a result of concerns that were raised regarding the peer review policies of one of its journals – the Journal of International Medical Research (JIMR). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier and American Urological Association collaborate to launch new journal - Urology Practice STM publisher Elsevier and the American Urological Association (AUA) have announced their collaboration to launch a new journal, Urology Practice. Urology Practice will focus on clinical trends, challenges and practice applications in the four areas of Business, Health Policy, the Specialty and Patient Care. AUA is a premier urological association providing invaluable support to the urology community. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New agreement between Max Planck Society and SPIE paves way for open access publication in SPIE Digital Library The Max Planck Society has announced a new agreement with SPIE the international society for optics and photonics. Research articles by authors at the Max Planck Society institutes that are published in SPIE journals will be open access. The Max Planck Society will pay open access fees for articles submitted by researchers at its institutes to any of the ten SPIE journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New instructional videos shed new light on anatomy of the inner ear Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced a groundbreaking addition to Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy that literally sheds new light on the intricate - and hard to ascertain - anatomy of the inner ear. More than two years in the making, these new online educational videos showcase the most innovative and revealing dissections of the human inner ear ever captured. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Rivisteweb journals now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that top humanities and social sciences journals via Rivisteweb are now searchable via EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). Il Mulino, an academic publisher in Italy, offers the prominent journals for both Carocci Editore and Il Mulino via its online portal Rivisteweb. EBSCO Discovery Service users are now able to search the Rivisteweb metadata including 45,000 articles from over 80 journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ex Libris Group launches Ex Libris Developer Network Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the global launch of the Ex Libris Developer Network - an open environment in which developers and IT professionals can collaborate across libraries and with Ex Libris to experiment with applications and extensions to the company's solutions. The new network welcomes community members from both Ex Libris customer and non-customer institutions. 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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Knowledgespeak Newsletter

 

29 April 2014

Elsevier announces publication of six new books in Biomedical and Life Sciences STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of six new books that serve the needs of researchers and academics with an emphasis on the translational level, including the new book Cellular and Molecular Pathobiology of Cardiovascular Disease edited by Monte Willis, Jonathon Homeister and James Stone. Topics covered in the six books are, among others, pathology, nutrition, molecular biology, drug discovery and cardiovascular research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HIMSS offers guidance to HHS on Certified EHR Technology In official comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HIMSS provided recommendations in response to ONC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Voluntary 2015 Edition Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification Criteria; Interoperability Updates and Regulatory Improvements. HIMSS recognises this proposed rule as an opportunity to explore potential program improvement areas and potential scope minimisation, and provide multi-stakeholder feedback to ONC. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme STRIATUS/JBJS and Aries Systems announce development partnership to facilitate generation of PRE-score - a new metric to evaluate peer review quality Peer review practices vary widely. Consequently readers and research funders lack a convenient and standardised way to assess the quality of peer review undertaken by scholarly journals. In response to this need, STRIATUS/JBJS, publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and its family of journals and educational offerings, is developing a transparent metric that will help readers identify journals that conduct ethical and rigorous peer review, called PRE-score. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme American Lawyer Media engages Scope for mining high quality market data Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of business process outsourcing services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced an ongoing engagement with American Lawyer Media (ALM). As a part of this engagement, Scope will support ALM's platform RivalEdge, an online service for finding, filtering and delivering relevant news and information directly into the hands of legal professionals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme John Bond named Chief Content Officer, SLACK Health Care Books and Journals STM publishing company SLACK Incorporated has announced that John Bond, has been named to the newly created position of Chief Content Officer, SLACK Health Care Books and Journals. In his new role, he will oversee all content initiatives for SLACK book and journal brands, both internal and external, across multiple platforms and formats to drive engagements, retention and positive customer behaviour. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Twelve new ebook and journal publishers join Publishing Technology's ingentaconnect service Content solutions provider Publishing Technology has announced that twelve new ebook and journal publishers have signed to its flagship ingentaconnect portal, known as the home of scholarly research. Available in over 26,000 libraries in 170 countries and viewed 3.5 million times per month, the ingentaconnect service will soon launch a redesigned interface as the latest phase of its ongoing development. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC releases WorldCat Works as linked data OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has made 197 million bibliographic work descriptions - WorldCat Works - available as linked data, a format native to the Web that will improve discovery of library collections through a variety of popular sites and Web services. Release of this data marks another step toward providing interconnected linked data views of WorldCat. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 2014 Emerald Literati Network Award winners announced Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the winners of its prestigious Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2014. Now in their 21st year, and one of the largest independent academic award programs worldwide, the awards recognise high levels of research excellence across the breadth of Emerald's research content. 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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