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8 April 2014

STM Association to host Innovations Seminar US 2014 The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers' (STM) will host the Innovations Seminar US 2014 at Washington Marriot, Washington DC, USA, on April 29, 2014. This annual US-event brings together the industry's most established thinkers and bright up-and-coming future stars to gives attendees an insight into the hottest innovations and vital technological trends and developments which will define STM publishing for years to come. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Brill and KNNV Publishing announce distribution agreement International scholarly publisher Brill has finalised an agreement with KNNV Publishing (Royal Dutch Society for Natural History Publishers) to distribute their foreign-language academic titles on Wildlife, Nature & Conservation. Initially, over 20 titles will be distributed by Brill, with more forthcoming. Full information on these titles is currently available on the Brill website. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier publishes five new cancer therapy books STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of five new cancer therapy books, including Cancer Theranostics, edited by Xiaoyuan Chen and Stephen Wong. All of the new books will be featured at this week's American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting April 5-9 in San Diego at Elsevier's booth #635. The books are available on the Elsevier Store and on ScienceDirect. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme University of South Carolina selects EBSCO Discovery Service with Encore Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the University of South Carolina (USC) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) with Encore as its discovery service. The university was looking for a single search box for its users but also wanted the flexibility to have more advanced options and EDS/Encore provided the right fit. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central and Canadian Society of Nephrology launch Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease Open access publisher BioMed Central and the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) have announced the launch of the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. As the official journal of the CSN, the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease will focus on clinical, translational, and health services delivery research in the field of chronic kidney disease, dialysis, kidney transplantation, and organ donation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CRC Press and CRCNetBASE content now available on Knovel Taylor & Francis Group's renowned engineering titles published by CRC Press will be offered on Knovel, a cloud-based application that integrates quality technical information with in-depth analytical and search tools. Additional content will be added to Knovel over the next few months across a variety of its subject areas and accessible to customers according to their subscriptions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Altmetric begins tracking mentions of articles on Sina Weibo Altmetric, supported by Digital Science, has begun tracking mentions of academic articles on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo. The data will shortly be fully integrated into existing Altmetric tools. The mentions collated will be visible to users via the Altmetric Explorer, a web-based application that allows users to browse the online mentions of any academic article, and, where appropriately licensed, via the article metrics data on publisher platforms. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Optical Society appoints Alison Taylor executive editor The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Alison Taylor has joined the OSA Publishing staff as executive editor, where she will manage a portfolio of OSA journals, including its newest journal, Optica, which is set to publish its first issue in July. Taylor will oversee all aspects of Optica, as well as the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, the Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Advances in Optics and Photonics, and Optical Materials Express. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Journals published by Portland Press to move to HighWire Open Platform Portland Press Limited has signed an agreement to move its sector-leading journals, including the Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science and Bioscience Reports, to the HighWire Open Platform. The new journal sites will see more than 10,000 pages of research published annually and a catalogue of papers dating back 100 years hosted on HighWire by mid-2015. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Applications for 2014 Research Fund Award for Latin America now open Global academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing and The Latin American Council of Management Schools, CLADEA, have opened the 2014 Research Fund Award for Latin America. The winner will receive a £2,000 (approximately US$3000) research grant to fund a Latin American research project in the field of management research. 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