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7 July 2014

WHO joins PubMed Central Global health authority, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the launch of a new open access policy in January 2014 to ensure the widespread dissemination of scientific research. The policy, which applies to all WHO-authored or WHO-funded research published in external journals and books, kicked into action on July 1, 2014. Articles authored or co-authored by WHO staff or WHO funding recipients will now have to be published in an open-access journal or a hybrid open-access journal (a subscription journal with some open access articles). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health' Lexicomp to offer subscriptions to Logical Images' flagship solution VisualDx Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that the partnership between its drug information solution, Lexicomp, and digital medical image library, Logical Images, is continuing to grow, with Lexicomp now offering subscriptions to Logical Images' flagship solution VisualDx®. Designed to assist in the diagnosis of diseases that prevent visually, VisualDx can help individual Lexicomp users enhance patient care and promote shared decision making to strengthen the patient-physician relationship. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPARC and the World Bank to co-host International Open Access Week 2014 kick-off event The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the World Bank will co-host the official kickoff event for International Open Access Week 2014 on October 20, 2014, from 3-4pm EDT, with a reception to follow. The event will be held at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC, with a live webcast for online participation around the world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thieme announces publication of Articular Injury of the Wrist Medical and scientific publishing house Thieme has announced the publication of Articular Injury of the Wrist, a text that gives readers a complete picture of the clinical, radiographic and therapeutic features of complex intra-articular wrist injuries. It is essential for all specialists who are regularly confronted with these challenging injuries. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Shahedipour-Sandvik named new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Electronic Materials The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) has announced the selection of F. (Shadi) Shahedipour-Sandvik, from the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), as the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of Electronic Materials. Shahedipour-Sandvik is associate professor of nanoengineering at the newly merged SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE)/SUNY Institute of Technology (SUNYIT). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Georgia Department of Education selects CTB/McGraw-Hill to develop new online standardized student assessment CTB/McGraw-Hill, one of US's leading educational assessment partners, has announced that the Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) has selected the company to develop a new customised state assessment for all Georgia students. The project will replace the state's current Criterion-Referenced Competency Test and End of Course Tests with the new assessment which will be called Georgia Milestones Assessment System (Georgia Milestones) beginning in the 2015 school year and will work to transition all Georgia tests online by 2019. 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: Derek (Scientific Journals: Who Pays What?); Michael Kozlowski (Libraries Starting to Adopt Pay Per Use for Digital Content); Joseph Esposito (The Business Model is a Community Affair); Dave Carr and Natalie Banner (Maximising the value of research data: developing incentives and changing cultures); Phil Davis (Open Access Publication Gains Acceptance With Authors, Licenses Still Problematic). 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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