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19 August 2014

COAR joins global coalition calling on STM Association to withdraw new model licenses Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), along with numerous other organisations, is a signatory to a letter calling on the STM Association to withdraw their model licences for open access. The organisation is calling on publishers to use Creative Commons licenses, which are already well-established and well-recognized by the community. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer Health announces impact factor gains across its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Medknow open access portfolio Wolters Kluwer Health has announced impact factor gains across its prestigious Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal portfolio and Medknow open access portfolio with the release of the latest Impact Factor (IF) scores and specialty rankings, based on the 2013 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), (Thomson Reuters). The Medknow open access journal portfolio continues to gain influence globally with 58 percent of the 23 titles listed in the JCR enjoying an increase in their IF rating over the previous year. For LWW's 198 titles listed in the JCR Rankings, 52 percent of the journals had gains over the previous year with 20 titles increasing 25 percent or more. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters releases comprehensive disease profile on Ebola Virus disease The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has released a comprehensive disease profile on Ebola Virus Disease that includes a detailed analysis of two new treatments in the pipeline and two experimental candidates approaching development. The Thomson Reuters Ebola Disease Briefing is available free of charge through its LS Research website, a resource providing researchers with the latest news on disease insights and developing treatments, through reports and biological pathway maps. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CHORUS-Portico deal to support preservation requirements of U.S. Federal OSTP Policy The not-for-profit digital archive Portico and CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) have entered into an agreement to support the preservation requirements of the policy memorandum released in February 2013 by the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). This policy directs United States federal agencies to develop plans to make articles reporting on the research they fund freely available to the public immediately or after an embargo period, and highlights requirements needed to ensure long-term access to this research through preservation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme University of Virginia opts for EBSCO Discovery Service API for better search retrieval and customer support University of Virginia, one of the top research academic institutions in the US, has migrated to the EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS) API for better search retrieval as well as customer support. By implementing the EDS API with the libraries' Blacklight-driven interface, University of Virginia is able to use its own website applications for a discovery user interface and still provide users with all the functionality offered in EBSCO Discovery Service. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cengage Learning recognized for technology innovation as 2014 Ebbies Awards finalist Honored for its role as an innovator among Bay Area technology leaders, Cengage Learning was named as a finalist in the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce's 2014 Excellence in Business Awards (Ebbies) for MindTap. MindTap is a cloud-based learning environment that makes it possible for students to learn from anywhere 24/7 using their preferred mobile device. 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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