Knowledgespeak Newsletter

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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