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7 April 2014

Brill Publishers selects Scope's ConSCIseTM platform for book chapter abstracts Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that Brill, the international publishing house head-quartered in Leiden, The Netherlands, has selected Scope to support its goal of increasing the discoverability of books chapters on its Brill Online Books and Journals platform. Brill intends to create chapter-level keyword and abstract metadata for its nearly 4,000 book backlist and for new books it publishes. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The London Book Fair's Author HQ – a stellar line up of events for aspiring authors Author HQ is the place at The London Book Fair for established and aspiring authors and there is plenty on offer at this year's Fair, to be held from April 8 – 10, 2014, Earls Court, London. Launched as a response to increasing interest from the self-publishing community, and sponsored by Kindle Direct Publishing, LBF will host a three day seminar programme featuring an incredible line up of speakers including publishers, authors and agents, who will share their advice and experience on how to get published successfully. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ACRL releases second part of draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force has released the second part of their initial draft of the association's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, adopted by ACRL in 2000, has become an essential document related to the emergence of information literacy as a recognised learning outcome at many institutions of higher education. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme DCMS re-appoints Baroness Blackstone as Chairman of British Library The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Rt. Hon Maria Miller MP, has re-appointed Baroness Blackstone as Chairman of the British Library for a further four year term. Tessa Blackstone has served as British Library Chairman since September 2010. She is Chair of the Trust Board at Great Ormond Street Hospital and of Orbit Housing Group and she is also a trustee of the Royal Opera House. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Forest Research and Management Institute ICAS preserves with CLOCKSS Archive The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with the Forest Research and Management Institute ICAS to preserve Annals of Forest Research in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a 'trigger event' and ensures an author's work will be maximally accessible and useful over time. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Aurora Health Care launches its own medical research journal - Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews Aurora Health Care, a non-profit healthcare network, has launched its own medical journal - Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews. The organisation now joins Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Marshfield Clinic and other health systems that also publish journals. It is expected that the new journal will help draw attention to the research done at Aurora, potentially increasing its profile within the scientific community. 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: Sabina Alam (OA: it's not just about the access); Robert Harington (Learning to Read: Navigating the Ebook Reader Market); Julia Molinari (Academic ghostwriting: to what extent is it haunting higher education?); Kent Anderson (Does Creative Commons Make Sense?); and Seth Long ("Re-purposing" data in the Digital Humanities: Data beg to be taken from one context and transferred to another). 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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