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19 January 2015

Wolters Kluwer Health announces launch of UpToDate Anywhere in Japan Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the launch of UpToDate Anywhere in Japan. UpToDate Anywhere enables Japanese hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with mobile access to UpToDate, the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource. Clinician usage of UpToDate nationwide is expected to steadily increase as mobile access becomes available in the country's healthcare institutions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO Health and MEDCOM Inc. sign reseller agreement EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, has announced an agreement with MEDCOM Inc. A leader in nursing education for more than 50 years, MEDCOM produces online healthcare training courses designed to give nursing students, allied health students and nurses access to the latest nursing content. The new agreement will allow EBSCO Health to resell a nursing education resource from MEDCOM Inc. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on metadata indicators for accessibility and licensing of e-content The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a new Recommended Practice on Access License and Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015) that defines metadata to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content. Access and License Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015) is available for free download from the ALI Working Group webpage on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/ali. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Dr. John Morrison named new Editor-in-Chief of BrainFacts.org Dr. John Morrison of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai began his term on January 1 as editor-in-chief of BrainFacts.org, a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Society for Neuroscience. Morrison joins an editorial board composed of leading neuroscientists from across the globe in providing guidance on content development, ensuring scientific validity, and facilitating engagement from the scientific community. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oklahoma State University Library joins HathiTrust Oklahoma State University Library has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership currently comprising more than 80 partners. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Credo adds new titles and video collections to its Academic Core collection Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, has announced the addition of nearly 50 new titles to its Academic Core general reference collection this month. The new titles come from notable publishers such as Harvard University Press, National Geographic Society, SAGE, and others, as well as videos from the MacNeil/Lehrer PBS Newshour. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Reprints Desk expands reach to over 200 academic libraries with three new library consortiums deals Research Solutions subsidiary Reprints Desk, Inc., a document delivery supplier, has announced new agreements with three new library consortiums to provide group purchase pricing incentives to more than 200 academic library members who are now eligible to sign up for Reprints Desk's award-winning Article Galaxy software platform to retrieve scholarly research articles that are not available via journal subscriptions. The new library consortiums are: University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Consortium of Libraries, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS), and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium (PALCI). 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: David Crotty (Compliance: The Coming Storm); Ben McCluskey (Impact doesn't have to be a dirty word – staying positive about the promotion of scientific excellence); Phil Davis (Social Media And Its Impact on Medical Research); and Steven T. Corneliussen (Should journals pay peer reviewers $50 per hour?). 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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