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7 August 2014

EndNote collaborates with Science Hack Day to bring global event to Madagascar Thomson Reuters EndNote, the leading software for researchers, librarians and students to manage bibliographies, citations and references, has announced a collaboration with Science Hack Day – a global grassroots movement aimed at empowering scientific innovation - to bring the event to Africa. The continent's first-ever Science Hack Day will be held in Antananarivo, Madagascar, August 9-10 at Habaka, a local innovation hub and business start-up incubator dedicated to advancing the country's efforts in technology through collaboration. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IMS Health introduces cloud-based life sciences solution to strengthen customer engagement, local sales productivity Information and technology services company IMS Health has announced the immediate availability of Nexxus Mobile Sales—the first complete cloud-based sales performance solution for life sciences - in the US. Nexxus Mobile Sales helps companies implement national brand strategies at local levels by combining continuously updated industry and customer data with expert decision-support tools for sales reps. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CrossRef and California Digital Library in deal to extend discoverability of scholarly publications CrossRef and the California Digital Library (CDL) have signed an agreement that opens a route for library publishers to participate in the scholarly communications hub created by CrossRef. Through the agreement, publishers using CDL's EZID digital identifier service may now choose to deposit the metadata for their content in the CrossRef system. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Six months post launch, 80 percent of UK library services sign up to Access to Research Ten million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, are now included in the Access to Research initiative. The service, launched in February 2014, now has 163 local authorities committed to providing Access to Research to their users, amounting to 80 percent of UK local authorities. The Access to Research service is available from Torbay to the Shetlands and from Powys to Brent, with more local authorities expected to join over the coming months. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald Group Publishing performs well in Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced that 56.4 percent of its indexed titles have increased in Impact Factor following the release of the 2013 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Thomson Reuters. Notable successes include Supply Chain Management, with a new Impact Factor of 2.916 bringing the journal into the top quartile of both the Business and Management subject categories. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SirsiDynix and Mackin announce e-resource central agreement SirsiDynix and Mackin Education Resources are working together to bring audiobooks, video resources, and nearly 300,000 eBooks to the eResource Central (eRC) ecosystem. Mackin has provided library and classroom services for grades PK-12 for over 30 years; its collections will extend the breadth of offerings available through eRC to school libraries. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL publishes Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340, which investigates ARL member libraries' adoption and/or development of open source software (OSS) for functions such as integrated library system (ILS), discovery layer, electronic resource management, interlibrary loan, digital asset management, institutional repository, course reserve, streaming media, study room scheduler, digital preservation, publishing, floor maps, data warehouse, or other library-related purposes. This SPEC Kit explores research libraries' policies and practices on open sourcing their code, the frequency with which research libraries contribute to open source projects, whether research libraries are reluctant to make their code openly available, and the most common benefits and challenges encountered when research libraries open source their code. 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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