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8 August 2014

ARL joins 60 other organisations opposing STM model licenses, recommends Creative Commons as alternative The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) along with almost 60 other organisations joined in a letter opposing model licenses recently released by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM). The letter's signatories are calling for STM to recommend to its member publishers that they work within the Creative Commons framework instead of offering their own customised open access licenses, which increase confusion and decrease interoperability with existing open licenses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EMA draft policy update on access to EudraVigilance database seeks right to censor scientific work that uses the data The European Medicines Agency (EMA), earlier this week, released a draft policy update on access to the data from the EudraVigilance database, which seems to imply they want the right to censor scientific work that uses the data. Managed by the EMA, EudraVigilance is the European database that holds all information on suspected side effects that have been reported for medicines authorised in Europe. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Content from BioOne Complete to be enhanced and indexed across ReadCube's platform BioOne, a publisher of scientific research, will partner with ReadCube, a Boston-based publishing technology company, to enhance the content from its online aggregation BioOne Complete. Leveraging ReadCube's Discover service, titles from BioOne's society and institutional partner publishers will be fully enhanced and discoverable across ReadCube's platform. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EDP Sciences set to host and distribute its journals, previously managed by Cambridge University Press EDP Sciences, a learned-society owned publisher, has announced that hosting and distribution of sixteen of its journals, previously managed by Cambridge University Press, will transition to EDP Sciences for direct management from 2015 onwards. EDP Sciences is located in Paris and London, with a growing portfolio of scientific journals in the physical sciences, astronomy, mathematics, life and environmental sciences, materials and engineering, health. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HighWire appoints Abhinav Mittal as Vice President of Engineering HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers and an auxiliary unit of Stanford University Libraries, has announced the appointment of Abhinav Mittal as Vice President of Engineering. Abhinav is an energetic, hands-on technical leader with a passion for encouraging collaboration and building teams that deliver outstanding products and services to customers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cerner to acquire Siemens Health Services Cerner Corporation and Siemens AG have signed a definitive agreement for Cerner to acquire the assets of Siemens' health information technology business unit, Siemens Health Services, for $1.3 billion in cash. As part of the agreement, Cerner and Siemens will form a strategic alliance to bring new solutions to market that combine Cerner's health IT leadership and Siemens' strengths in medical devices and imaging. 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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