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12 May 2014

Elsevier publishes six new neuroscience books STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of six new neuroscience books, including Quantitative MRI of the Spinal Cord by Julien Cohen-Adad and Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott. The books enhance Elsevier's strong neuroscience publishing program with added reference and translational content for students, clinicians and researchers, general medicine practitioners and radiologists. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme STRIATUS/JBJS, Inc. announces initial publishers participating in the pilot phase of SocialCite STRIATUS/JBJS, Inc., publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and its family of journals and educational offerings, has announced that The Rockefeller University Press, the Genetics Society of America, and the American Physiological Society are the initial publishers participating in the pilot phase of SocialCite, which runs through 2014. SocialCite is a new workflow tool that interacts with and improves the citation network by providing a new quality metric. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health's Ovid and LWW global Customer Support Team recognised as Top 25 Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that the Technical Services Customer Support team for its Ovid® and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journals business has been designated a 2014 Top 25 Center of Excellence by BenchmarkPortal, in collaboration with the Center for Customer-Driven QualityTM, founded at Purdue University. The recognition comes in the Small Center category, which is for those service centers with less than 100 staff members. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IMS Health announces acquisition of Forcea Information, technology and services provider IMS Health has acquired Forcea, a leading Belgium-based provider of business intelligence applications and analytics, to advance performance management capabilities for hospitals and life sciences organisations around the globe. The acquisition brings together IMS Health's comprehensive information and technology services with Forcea's hospital-based technology solutions to drive more effective clinical and cost decisions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Allen Press to host sixth annual Best Practices and Innovative Solutions webinar series Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc. will host the sixth annual Best Practices and Innovative Solutions webinar series beginning this June. These six one-hour webinars, designed for societies, associations, and publishers, will be presented monthly beginning June 12 and ending November 20. All webinars will be led by Allen Press' professional staff. There is no cost to attend the webinars, but participants must register online at http://allenpress.com/events/webinar. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Semantico announces new appointments Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., has announced new appointments in the senior management team. Richard Padley is now the Chief Executive Officer of Semantico Ltd (UK) and Semantico Inc. (USA). Rob Virkar-Yates has been appointed to the post of Chief Operating Officer. Tracy Capaldi-Drewett has been appointed as the new Sales Director. 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: Kent Anderson (How Do We Address the Continuing Problem of Inadequate and Deceptive Publishing Practices?); Cameron Neylon (Fork, merge and crowd-sourcing data curation: tools for collective data processing and analysis); Samuel Gershman (The Exploitative Economics of Academic Publishing); Rick Anderson (A Modest Proposal for Scaled-up Open Access); and John Hammersley (Taking publishing beyond paper). 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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