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2 June 2014

Elsevier unveils new OA journal - Case Reports in Women's Health STM Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Case Reports in Women's Health. Case Reports in Women's Health publishes open access case reports covering all aspects of women's health. The scope reflects the comprehensive nature of women's health and includes not only the core areas of obstetrics and gynecology, but also the key subspecialty areas. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HighWire Press receives significant equity investment from Accel-KKR to support strategic growth HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers and an auxiliary unit of Stanford University Libraries, has received a significant equity investment to support its strategic growth from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm. The new partnership enables HighWire to further its investment in strategic initiatives and digital innovations in Internet-based publishing. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Boopsie and NoveList partnership to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select Boopsie, Inc., a mobile app platform for libraries, has partnered with NoveList, an EBSCO Information Services offering, to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select. NoveList Select applies NoveList's expert-generated book recommendations to a library's catalogue. Patrons search for a title in their library's catalogue, and can easily find other recommended titles, based off similar titles, authors or series. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen launches Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen, which published its first Open Access articles in April, is now officially launching to coincide with the SSP 36th Annual Meeting. This next generation Open Access (OA) platform builds on the premise that scholarly publishing is not an end in itself, but the beginning of a dialogue to move research forward. ScienceOpen provides a holistic authoring environment to facilitate the entire research communication process, putting valuable resources at the fingertips of researchers and liberating more time for experimentation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ELT division of Cambridge University Press partners with Gutenberg Technology to deliver unique online reading experience The English Language Teaching (ELT) division of Cambridge University Press has engaged Gutenberg Technology to provide students and adult learners around the world access to their award-winning products and services on a range of mobile devices and platforms. The Cambridge Bookshelf, designed and built by Gutenberg Technology, comes loaded with interactive tools and features designed to exploit the full functionality of the EPUB 3 standard adopted by the Press's ELT division. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Harvard Library on track to implement Primo The Harvard Library is on track to implement Primo - a new scholarly search tool - this summer. The Library, following an extensive review of discovery systems, announced its decision to adopt the Primo discovery and delivery system from Ex Libris in April 2014. Discovery systems were evaluated by the Discovery Platform Investigation working group. More recently, teams have been hard at work on implementing what will be called HOLLIS+. 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 (Regret Salad with Aspiration Dressing — A Scholarly Publisher Delves Into the New York Times' Innovation Report); Kat Smith and Richard Freeman (A New Politics of Knowledge? Exploring the contested boundaries between science, knowledge and policy); Alice Meadows (How Can We Make the Publishing Process More Sound?); Digital Book World Blog (Advantages Multiply for Open Source Publishing); and Mike Shatzkin (Subscription services for ebooks progress to becoming a real experiment). 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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