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1 December 2014

Frontiers offers new Impact Metrics and access to Altmetric data Frontiers, a community-rooted open-access publisher, has announced the release of an expanded suite of Impact Metrics and fully integrated Altmetric data. Additionally, Frontiers has expanded its collection of Impact Metrics to allow everyone to measure the impact and readership demographics for Research Topics — collections of peer-reviewed open-access articles on important themes at the cutting edge of knowledge. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier unveils new journal - Extreme Mechanics Letters STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new journal - Extreme Mechanics Letters. The launch of Extreme Mechanics Letters is driven primarily by the rapid advances at the forefront of applied sciences such as micro and nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, soft materials, smart sensing/actuation, manufacturing, device fabrication, many of them depend heavily on mechanics tools. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central to publish Research Involvement and Engagement journal Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced plans to publish the new innovative journal Research Involvement and Engagement, which aims to publish its first articles in June 2015. Research Involvement and Engagement is an interdisciplinary, health and social care journal focusing on patient and wider involvement and engagement in research, at all stages. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ORCID launches Portuguese-language user interface The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that it is expanding the languages supported in the ORCID Registry with the launch of a Portuguese-language user interface. Users may now register for an ORCID identifier and manage their account in Portuguese. This augments the organisation's current support for nine languages (English, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese), and builds upon capabilities ORCID has offered since launch for adding content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IET and key publishers create draft recommendations to improve conference content quality The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), together with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and STM publisher Elsevier, has created draft recommendations for conference content. These recommendations are designed to uphold the quality of published research presented at scientific meetings and conferences. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wellcome Trust partners with other European foundations to support the Europe and Global Challenges funding initiative The Wellcome Trust has entered into a partnership with the Volkswagen Foundation in Germany and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in Sweden to support the Europe and Global Challenges funding initiative. The funding initiative is open to teams of researchers, working in European and non-European countries, which have research proposals that address global challenges. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Open Access: Meaning(s) and Goal(s)); Bonnie J. M. Swoger (Is this peer reviewed? Predatory journals and the transparency of peer review); Ella Flemyng (Opinions on systematic review use in policymaking); and Jure Triglav (Standards for scientific graphic presentation: Interactive figures could significantly improve understanding of data). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. 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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