Knowledgespeak Newsletter

 

5 May 2014

Wiley completes acquisition of CrossKnowledge Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that it has completed the acquisition of CrossKnowledge, a learning solutions provider focused on leadership and managerial skills development, for $175 million in cash. The Wiley management will provide further details and address questions during a conference call scheduled for May 8, 2014 at 2:00 pm ET. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Mendeley to support Research4Life access in developing world Mendeley, a global research collaboration and reference manager platform, has pledged to actively support and collaborate with Research4Life on the heels of its first anniversary at Elsevier. Research 4 Life is a public-private partnership that provides free and low-cost access to peer reviewed resources. Its main challenges are boosting usage and output by researchers in developing countries. As one of the founding partners, Elsevier supplies a quarter of the content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme WEDI organises emergency summit on ICD-10 implementation The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has joined the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and several other stakeholder organisations in pulling together a meeting to develop an industry action plan and roadmap for ICD-10 implementation in lieu of the ICD-10 delay that was included in the most recent physician payment fix enacted on April 1, 2014. The community that gathered at the Summit discussed their ideas on the steps that industry could take to continue to implement ICD-10, and what activities they should be undertaking with the delay underway. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IOP Publishing announces participation in 2014 NHS pilot Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) has announced that it is participating in a pilot that will enable access to journal content licensed by Jisc Collections to eligible staff working across the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. AAAS, Annual Reviews, Elsevier, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Springer, and Royal Society of Chemistry have also agreed to provide a free trial access period for up to one year in most cases. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme eLibrary from ProQuest updated for today's multi-tasker and mobile learner Students using eLibrary® from ProQuest® can now benefit from several recent enhancements to this online resource, making it easier to conduct research and to complete school assignments. The new mobile web edition of eLibrary is now available and enables access from smart phones and hand-held devices, to one of the largest general reference collections of periodicals and digital media content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ALPSP names BMJ's Peter Ashman as Chair Elect The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has appointed Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at BMJ, as Chair Elect of its governing Council with immediate effect. Peter will become Chair from 2015. He will succeed Simon Ross, Managing Director, Journals at Cambridge University Press. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme KB/Libris-libraries join WorldCat The National Library of Sweden (KB) has signed an agreement to join WorldCat, one of the world's largest library catalogues, operated by OCLC, after seven years of negotiation. During the entire negotiation period KB maintained that data in LIBRIS should be freely available under the Creative Commons open license (CC0) and in February 2014 OCLC and KB finally signed an agreement regarding open licensing. 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: Joseph Esposito (The Evolving Ecosystem for Journals Publishing); Melinda Baldwin (Is the Peer Review Process for Scientific Papers Broken?); Frederik Verleysen and Tim Engels (The internationalisation of academic publishing points to distinctly different audiences for scholarly books); David Crotty (Altmetrics: Mistaking the Means for the End); and Tania Browne (Let's shine a light on paywalls that deny open access to scientific research). 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.

Home | News | Subscribe | Interviews | Blogs | Directory | Resources | Events | Links | Sitemap | About Us | About Scoope | Contact Us

© www.knowledgespeak.com