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9 June 2014

Nature Publishing Group and JAAM announce 2015 launch of open access journal - npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine (JAAM) have announced the 2015 launch of npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease. The online open access journal will go live on nature.com in Q1 2015, and will begin accepting submissions in September 2014. The editorial team will be led by Editor in Chief Kazuo Tsubota, Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme PLOS ONE witnesses 25 percent fall in submissions The number of papers published by one of the world's largest open-access journal, PLOS ONE, has plunged over the past few months after rising fairly steadily for years, notes Phil Davis, a scholarly publishing blogger. According to Davis, PLOS ONE may have become a less attractive option for scientists as its impact factor has fallen and other open-access publishers have come on the scene. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Reed Business Information acquires agricultural software and workflow solutions business, Farmade Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed Elsevier, recently announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of agricultural software and workflow solutions business Farmade. Farmade will join RBI's agricultural information, software and marketing solutions business, Farmers Weekly Group. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Co-Action Publishing launches European Clinical Respiratory Journal in cooperation with Nordic Respiratory Academy Open access scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing has announced the launch of European Clinical Respiratory Journal (ECRJ), in cooperation with the Nordic Respiratory Academy (NORA), including the Swedish Society of Respiratory Medicine, Danish Society of Respiratory Medicine, Norwegian Respiratory Society and Finnish Respiratory Society. With its strong clinical focus, the journal is projected to be a valuable reference for the research community as well as clinicians and other respiratory scientists. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New Zealand's Lincoln University selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Lincoln University has opted for the Ex Libris Alma library management service and the Primo discovery and delivery solution. Deployed in the cloud, Alma and Primo will provide the University's students and academic staff with access to leading scholarship from global and national sources and will facilitate the discovery of the considerable intellectual capital that the University produces through research and teaching activities. 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: Rick Anderson (Author vs. Author: The Authors Guild and the Authors Alliance Set to Duke It Out?); Diana Laurillard (Big data can transform learning – as long as lecturers take control); Martyn Daniels (Why is eBook Metadata So Hard?); Ross Mounce (The right to read is the right to mine: Text and data mining copyright exceptions introduced in the UK); and Phil Davis (PLOS ONE Output Falls 25 Percent). 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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