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1 October 2014

Wellcome Trust launches charity fund to support open access research publications Six medical research charities recently launched the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to cover open access, article-processing charges. The Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) is a partnership between Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Campaign, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research and the Wellcome Trust to enable free and unrestricted access to the published outputs of the research we support. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LIBER calls on European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science On the eve of the closing of the European Consultation on Science 2.0, LIBER issued a statement both welcoming the Consultation as a step towards strengthening the competitiveness of European research, and calling on the European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science. Commenting on the position statement, LIBER President, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen called on all LIBER libraries to play their part in enabling Open Science. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™ via EBSCO The print index, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU), is now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955TM. EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston worked together to digitize the content and build the free database from the volumes originally published by the H.W. Wilson Company. This effort was made possible through a donation from the H.W. Wilson Foundation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central and the University of Michigan in deal to publish open access journal Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology Open access publisher BioMed Central and the University of Michigan have announced an agreement to publish a new open access journal, Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is now open for submissions and will begin publishing in the first quarter of 2015. The journal is led by Editor-in-Chief, Meng H. Tan, Professor, Internal Medicine, in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes, at the University of Michigan. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE launches open access journal PLEURA to advance knowledge of pleural diseases Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of PLEURA, an open access journal publishing research on recent advances in pleural diseases. The journal will be published as the official journal of the International Society of Pleural Diseases. PLEURA will promote a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and management of pleural diseases. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme American Association of Critical-Care Nurses joins The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group, adds two AACN journals to ISPG offerings The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently joined The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) and will add two of AACN's award-winning journals to the ISPG offerings - American Journal of Critical Care and Critical Care Nurse. As part of this new agreement, AACN offers select content to all participating ISPG clients worldwide. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Austin Community College and McGraw-Hill Education unveil world's largest adaptive McGraw-Hill Education and Austin Community College unveiled the world's largest "math emporium," a 600-seat lab that has the capacity to serve half of the district's over 41,000 credit students in developmental math at the 2014 annual EDUCAUSE conference. Known as the ACCelerator, the emporium is contained within a state-of-the art learning center built on the former site of Austin's Highland Mall. The ACCelerator is powered by McGraw-Hill Education's adaptive math program, ALEKS®. 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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