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29 August 2014

Thomson Reuters and DataCite collaborate to expand discovery of research data The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with DataCite, a global non-profit organization dedicated to enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data. The collaboration will promote the discovery of research data sets through the Data Citation Index, a single-point solution providing access to quality research data sets from multi-disciplinary repositories around the world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Society for Neuroscience is now accepting submissions for its new open-access journal, eNeuro The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced that it is accepting submissions for eNeuro, its new open-access journal. The Society also revealed the journal's founding editorial board. Featuring a wide range of content, eNeuro will provide an innovative venue for publishing excellent science across the neuroscience field, with a fair, fast review process for researchers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IET journals show Impact Factor growth 2013 Impact Factors from Thomson Reuters have shown growth for a number of journals published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with eight of its journals improving their Impact Factor by more than 10 percent. Of particular note is IET Renewable Power Generation which has seen great improvement with an impact factor increase of 33 per cent to 2.280; this now places this journal in Quartile 1 in the Engineering, Electrical & Electronic category. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Atypon's Literatum platform to host all ICE Publishing content from mid-2015 ICE Publishing, a leading provider of information in the fields of civil engineering, construction, and materials science, has announced a partnership with Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry. Under the deal, Atypon's Literatum platform will host all ICE Publishing content from mid-2015. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Walters State Community College partners with McGraw-Hill Education to provide all-digital learning experience to undergraduate biology students Walters State Community College has teamed with McGraw-Hill Education to offer an all-digital course experience designed to engage and drive the performance of its biology students. As part of the collaboration, students taking biology courses will receive their course resources, including content and assessment, through McGraw-Hill Connect and LearnSmart, McGraw-Hill Education's digital teaching and learning platform and adaptive learning technology for higher education. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme World Scientific brings new e-book collections to Universiti Brunei Darussalam Almost 4,000 e-books published by STM publisher World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press were made available to students and faculty members at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) through a new agreement. The agreement is part of the university's mandate to develop better capability and resources to facilitate more rapid research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Portico to host webinar on e-book preservation Digital preservation specialist Portico is organising a 45-minute webinar on e-book preservation. The webinar is scheduled for September 10, 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Amy Kirchhoff, Portico archive product manager and co-author of 'Preserving E-books,' a new Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) TechWatch report, will answer the question 'What will it take to ensure long-term access to e-books?'and will discuss other current developments and issues in e-books. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on September 1, 2014 on account of Labor Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the August 29th issue. 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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28 August 2014

Thomson Reuters and Hessen University Consortium collaborate to drive the success of German scientific research programs The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with a consortium of seven Hessen universities and universities of applied science (HeFIS) to streamline its institutions' scholarly information management and workflow. The initiative utilizes Thomson Reuters Converis, a comprehensive research management system providing pre-and-post-award and open-access-repository management to support the entire spectrum of the research lifecycle. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oxford University Press provides free access to Ebola resources to combat outbreak in West Africa Academic publisher Oxford University Press is offering free access to several resources across its online products and journals to researchers, healthcare workers, and policymakers in their search for effective treatment and prevention in the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Over the next three months, relevant articles will be freely available to all those working at this critical juncture. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NIH issues final NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy The National Institutes of Health has issued a final NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy to promote data sharing as a way to speed the translation of data into knowledge, products and procedures that improve health while protecting the privacy of research participants. The final policy was posted in the Federal Register Aug. 26, 2014 and published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts Aug. 27, 2014. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Pharmacy OneSource announces free webinar on NHSN updates Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health is hosting a complimentary webinar with Joan N. Hebden, RN, MS, CIC in 'NHSN Update: What's New in 2014 and What to Expect in 2015 and Beyond.' In this webinar, Hebden will address the application of the NHSN definitions discussed at the 2014 CDC training with illustrative case studies, proposed changes for 2015 and how infection preventionists are adopting algorithmic approaches to surveillance. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Russell Sage Foundation selects Atypon for new publication Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Russell Sage Foundation has signed an agreement with Atypon for Literatum to power the recently announced open access RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. The Russell Sage Foundation chose the Literatum platform to manage and deliver their content and to provide valuable features to librarians and readers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Publishing Technology China in deal with Zhonghua Book Company at Beijing International Book Fair One of China's most prestigious trade and academic publishers, Zhonghua Book Company, has announced that it will partner with Publishing Technology China to build a new pub2web powered website. As part of a government-backed project, the deal will see the creation of a new digital publishing platform and management system, designed to accommodate Zhonghua Book Company's complete collection of ancient Chinese works, dating back to the publisher's inception in 1912. 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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