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14 July 2014

Dr. Courtney Aldrich to head new web-only journal ACS Infectious Diseases The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Courtney Aldrich will head the brand-new, web-only journal ACS Infectious Diseases as editor-in-chief. With the first issue slated for publication in January 2015, the pioneering journal will meet a growing demand for a place to publish top-notch chemistry-focused infectious diseases research. Dr. Aldrich is an associate professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Minnesota. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cell Press set to publish China-based journal Molecular Plant Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, will take over from Oxford University Press as publisher of Molecular Plant, an international society journal that publishes important advances in plant biology, in January 2015. The journal is led by a global team of academic editors, with the editor-in-chief and executive editor in California, supported by an international editorial board and a group of professional editors in Shanghai. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Coalition opposes copyright term extension in Trans-Pacific partnership agreement On July 9, 2014, ARL joined 34 other organisations in sending a letter to ministers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating parties, expressing opposition to the copyright term of life plus 70 years proposed by the United States. These organisations - representing libraries, archives, authors, educators, students, digital rights advocacy groups, and technological innovators - note that this extended copyright term threatens the public domain. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Bookbuilders of Boston announces new awards event to honour excellence in the new publishing and information economy Bookbuilders of Boston, a non-profit professional group that serves the needs of New Englanders working in the publishing industry, has announced a new awards event to honour excellence in the new publishing and information economy. Based on an embrace of disruption and the need to transform the traditional value chain of content creation, the New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards showcase results achieved by two or more organisations working as partners. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Mandy Hill appointed as new Managing Director, Academic Publishing for Cambridge University Press Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced the appointment of Mandy Hill as the new Managing Director of Academic Publishing. She will take up the new post in September. She succeeds Richard Fisher, who will be leaving in December after 30 years at the Press. Mandy has over 20 years experience in academic publishing and has worked at Oxford University Press since 1998. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC Research awarded ALCTS Presidential Citation for 'Understanding the Collective Collection' OCLC Research has been awarded the Presidential Citation of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services for outstanding service to ALCTS in the report, 'Understanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print Collections.' OCLC Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist Lorcan Dempsey and Program Officer Constance Malpas accepted the award at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cloud Connect Summit expands Interop New York Conference to focus on cloud-enabled enterprise Cloud Connect, produced by UBM Tech, will present Cloud Connect Summit alongside Interop New York this fall, broadening the conference's cloud content offering. As a full conference, Cloud Connect Summit will focus on how enterprises can leverage the cloud's abundance of resources and applications to out-manoeuvre, out-innovate, and outpace the competition. The Cloud Connect Summit and expo will take place at the Javits Convention Center in New York on October 1 and 2, after two full days of cloud-focused workshops on September 29 and 30. 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: Angela Cochran (Implementing CHORUS: Big Decisions Loom for Publishers); Joe Wikert (Why econtent prices will erode even further); Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (What lesson do rising retraction rates hold for peer review?); Kim Holmberg (Altmetrics may be able to help in evaluating societal reach, but research significance must be peer reviewed); and Joseph Esposito (Ending with Open Access, Beginning with Open Access). 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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