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23 May 2014

Cyprus Academic Library Consortium selects Proquest to provide information to members on wide variety of subjects ProQuest solutions has recently been chosen by the Cyprus Academic Library Consortium (CALC) to provide valuable information on a wide variety of subjects to its members which include the three public and four private universities in Cyprus. Looking to deliver essential content to academics in Cyprus, CALC chose ProQuest solutions to improve researchers' outcomes. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CERN openlab publishes whitepaper on future IT challenges in scientific research CERN openlab, the public-private partnership between CERN, leading IT companies and research institutes, has released a whitepaper on future IT challenges in scientific research to shape its upcoming three-year phase starting in 2015. The whitepaper defines the ambitious challenges covering the most crucial needs of IT infrastructures in domains such as data acquisition, computing platforms, data storage architectures, compute provisioning and management, networks and communication, and data analytics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NINR appoints three new members to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) has announced the appointment of three new members to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR), the institute's principal advisory board. Members of the council are drawn from the scientific and lay communities, embodying a diverse perspective from the fields of nursing, public and health policy, law, and economics. NINR, a component of the National Institutes of Health, is the primary federal agency for the support of nursing research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPARC releases statement on FIRST Act The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition's (SPARC) Executive Director Heather Joseph has released a statement on Science, Space, and Technology markup of H.R. 4186, the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act. Representative Lofgren (D-CA) offered an amendment to Section 303 on behalf of herself and Representative Sensenbrenner (R-WI) to replace the current language with the text similar to that of the Public Access to Public Science Act (H.R. 3157). The amendment was passed by voice vote. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The American Geophysical Union names John Orcutt editor of Earth Space and Science Journal The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has announced that John Orcutt, a distinguished professor of Geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and former president of AGU, will serve as the inaugural editor of its newest open access, peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science. The journal will begin accepting papers in late summer 2014, and the first articles will be available in late fall 2014. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Sheridan launches automated, XML-Based ArticleWorkflows Sheridan has launched ArticleExpress, a new patent-pending workflow for STM publishers that replaces the traditional PDF-based article proof with a fully editable, browser-based, HTML proofing environment. In this new workflow, authors, editors, and publishers can easily review and directly edit article content in a browser application while still maintaining the structure of the underlying XML. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Publishers Association appoints new officers The Publishers Association has announced the appointment of new officers with Dominic Knight, Chairman of Palgrave Macmillan and Executive Director of Change Programmes, Macmillan Science and Education, appointed as President, and Joanna Prior, Managing Director, Penguin, as Vice-President and Treasurer. The PA Trade Publishers Council has also seen new appointments with Jamie Byng, Managing Director, Canongate, being confirmed as Chair. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on May 26, 2014 on account of Memorial Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, May 27, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the May 23rd issue. 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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