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29 July 2014

Biochemical Society and Portland Press Limited waive open access publishing fees for low income countries The Biochemical Society, and its wholly-owned publishing subsidiary Portland Press Limited, have announced that authors from low income countries will no longer have to pay open access author processing charges. With this move, authors from 71 countries can have their accepted papers published and made publicly available for free in the Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, and the fully open access journal, Bioscience Reports from September 2014. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health announces new seven-volume series on the latest techniques in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry and students of medicine, has introduced an innovative seven-volume series on the latest techniques in Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. Written by a team of head and neck surgeons widely recognized as among the best in the world, the new series, entitled Master Techniques in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, documents their proven surgical techniques using text, photos, illustrations and video. Dr. Eugene Myers serves as the Series Editor. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier launches new Open Access journal - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases, an open access, surgical journal. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases is a surgical journal dedicated to publishing case reports and case series only which must be original, educational, rare conditions or findings, or clinically interesting to an international audience of surgeons and clinicians. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme World's leading ICT standards organisations collaborate on emerging technologies The 18th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), a senior-level gathering of the world's leading information and communication technologies (ICT) standards organisations, took place on July 22 – 23, 2014, hosted by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) in Sophia Antipolis, France. The GSC meeting focused on three topics where standards play a major role in the development of technologies that bring benefits to consumers and businesses: critical communications, machine to machine communications and software defined networking. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPIE Professional magazine's photo contest celebrates light, light-based technologies The SPIE Professional magazine is inviting entries in a photo contest celebrating the use of light and light-based technologies in everyday life. Cash prizes and placement on the magazine's cover will be awarded to the winning photos. Winning photos in a contest launched this week for images showing the use of light and light-based technologies in daily life will win cash prizes and cover placement in an issue of SPIE Professional magazine, published by SPIE. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme TISP launches policy recommendations: the first operational guidelines to boost innovation in book publishing and ICT The TISP network (Technology Innovation for Smart Publishing), the European project coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association which gathers 25 organisations from 12 European countries, has released a set of policy recommendations, giving the publishing and technology sectors a common base at European level to foster and sustain innovation for the first time. The recommendations address policy makers looking to secure the smooth running of the markets concerned and the satisfaction of consumers, using existing instruments at their disposal. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CLOCKSS Archive certified as trusted digital repository The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has announced the completion of an eight-month audit of the CLOCKSS Archive and has certified the CLOCKSS Archive as a trustworthy digital repository. CLOCKSS claims to be the only organisation to earn a perfect score of 5 in the Technologies, Technical Infrastructure, and Security category. CLOCKSS also attained the highest score received by any organisation that has undergone this independent audit. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 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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