Knowledgespeak Newsletter

14 April 2014

Authors Guild appeals to US court to reinstate case against Google and its book digitisation project The Authors Guild asked a federal appeals court on April 11th to reinstate its lawsuit contending that the Internet giant is violating copyright laws with its massive book digitisation project. The Guild filed papers with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, saying that Google's effort to create the world's largest digital library was violating the rights of authors and stifling competition in the busy Internet book sales market. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ORCID user interface now available in Korean ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has announced that in 2014 it will be expanding the number of languages supported. ORCID user interface will now be available in Korean also. The translation of the ORCID user interface was made possible through the dedicated volunteer efforts of Senator Jeong, an ORCID Ambassador. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest and J.P. Morgan partner to widen access to analyst reports ProQuest, an information firm central to global research, and J.P. Morgan, a global financial services firm, have joined forces to help business students and faculty make use of J.P. Morgan's company and economic research. The companies have created J.P. Morgan Research, which contains intelligence and insight on more than 3,000 corporations worldwide and all major economies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 'Research Without Borders' panel to discuss open access in the Americas "Research Without Borders: Open Access in the Americas", the final event of the academic year in the Research Without Borders panel discussion series will take place from 3pm -5pm on April 29, 2014 in Presidential Rooms 2 & 3 of Columbia's Faculty House. The current landscape of open access policy development in the USA, Canada, and Latin America will be compared and contrasted in this panel event. It is free and open to the public. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme McGraw-Hill Education TASC joins McGraw-Hill Education's line-up of high school equivalency exam prep materials McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced the publication of the McGraw-Hill Education TASC, an authoritative guide to the new high school equivalency exam, TASC Test Assessing Secondary CompletionTM. It provides students with a comprehensive review and practice in all five exam subject areas: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Baker & Taylor releases new enhanced version of Axis 360 service Baker & Taylor, a worldwide distributor of digital and print books, has announced the release of a new and enriched version of its Axis 360 service designed to improve the visual appeal and experience for library users, and to expand site administration and collection management tools for the company's digital media circulation platform. The improvements in this release include a broad range of enhancements for Axis 360, and reflect feedback and requests received from customers and users of the digital services. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald offers free access to a special journal issue highlighting library innovation Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing is offering free access to a special issue from its LIS journal, Library High Tech: 'Smart space technology innovations' until April 19th as part of the National Library Week celebration. Articles within this special issue cover topical issues like potential implications of next generation digital libraries, and their effect on the physical library space and how to begin moving a library's repository to the cloud. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Accelrys speeds life science decisions with next-generation Insight Accelrys, Inc. has announced the latest releases of Accelrys Insight and Accelrys Insight for Excel. The two releases continue the rapid evolution of Accelrys' next-generation solution for interactively searching, browsing and visualizing data within the Accelrys Cheminformatics Suite, helping networked life science discovery teams bring innovative therapeutics to market faster and more cost effectively. 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: Christopher Meyers (The lack of reward mechanisms for public scholarship severely limits the future of public engagement in the academy); Maria Kowalczuk (Are journals ready to abolish peer review?); Kent Anderson (Bitcoin and Flash Traders - Leveraging Scarcity Within the Internet's Infrastructure); Joe Wikert (5 important questions about content reuse); and Joseph Esposito (Why Do Publishers Want to Sell Direct?). 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