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9 February 2015

STM opens community-wide consultation on article sharing The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has opened a communitywide consultation into the sharing of research articles. Running from February 9 - April 10, 2015, the consultation aims to start discussion and to gain a better understanding of the current landscape of article sharing through scholarly collaboration networks and sites. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Publishers highlight continued copyright concerns in Canada and China Canada's undefined 'education as fair dealing exception' continues to significantly undermine the rights of authors and publishers of educational materials, according to the Association of American Publishers (AAP). This and other concerns were recently submitted by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) on behalf of the copyright industries to the 2015 Special 301 Report to the U.S. Trade Representative. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier wins 10 PROSE Awards, Virtual Microscope bags Best eProduct Application award STM publisher Elsevier announced winning 10 PROSE Awards including the Best eProduct Application award for the Virtual Microscope, an integrated browser-based slide viewer that provides access to high resolution whole slide images. Seven books and two journals published by Elsevier received a total of 10 awards at the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Annual Conference in Washington, DC. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AAAS and the Science family of journals join forces with CLOCKSS to safeguard access to content The CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) Archive has partnered with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to safeguard access to content in the Science family of journals, published by AAAS, in the event of an unforeseen 'trigger event' such as a natural disaster. Under the agreement, AAAS/Science content will be preserved in CLOCKSS ejournals and ebooks, across a geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries worldwide. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Hannah Telfer to present third keynote speech at Publishing for Digital Minds Conference The London Book Fair, in association with The Publishers Association, has announced that Hannah Telfer, group director for consumer and digital development of Penguin Random House UK, will give the third keynote speech at the Publishing for Digital Minds Conference. This seventh edition of the conference, sponsored by the Copyright Clearance Center, will bring together voices from across the content industries to discuss the topics that will define the future of publishing in 2015 and beyond, to an audience of delegates drawn from over 20 countries. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Submissions now open for new OA journal, Virus Evolution Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced that submissions are now open for new Open Access journal Virus Evolution. The journal focuses on the long-term evolution of viruses, viruses as a model system for studying evolutionary processes, viral molecular epidemiology and environmental virology. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Unbound Medicine partners with Miami Dade College's Benjamín León School of Nursing to mobilise learning environment Unbound Medicine, a US-based provider of knowledge management solutions for the healthcare industry, has partnered with Miami Dade College's Benjamín León School of Nursing to mobilise their curriculum and create a unique mobile learning environment. Using Unbound's online authoring system, uPubTM, faculty developed a digital curriculum guide to help students navigate through their course of study. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IHS acquires Rushmore Reviews, deal gives IHS immediate access to detailed international well information, improving coverage for benchmarking tools IHS Inc., a global source of critical information and insight, has acquired Rushmore Reviews, a Scotland-based company that provides premium, subscription-based service for drilling and completions benchmarking solutions in the oil and gas industry. Established in 1989, Rushmore is the premier provider of quality-controlled offset well data services to exploration and production operators. 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: Isaac Santos, Carlos Duarte, Damien Maher; Peter Macreadie and Scott G Johnston (Tackling unethical authorship deals on scientific publications); Roger C Schonfeld (Data for Discovery); Joe Wikert (Customers as curators: Going beyond simple reviews); Steven Hill (Are the natural sciences missing out by not embracing the monograph like the humanities and social sciences?); and Jill O'Neill (Conveying Understanding: That Grumpy Essay in the New York Times). 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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