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6 April 2015

Elsevier and CERN announce further OA agreement STM publisher Elsevier and CERN have announced that articles published by CERN authors in Elsevier Physics journals that are not covered by the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative will be published open access. As part of this agreement, CERN results in fields such as nuclear physics, instrumentation, astroparticle physics and scientific computing will appear as open access articles, with copyright retained by CERN and its authors, and reuse determined by Creative Commons CC-BY licenses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CHORUS issues Progress Report on first eight months in full production mode The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS), a cost-effective and sustainable public access solution, has issued a Progress Report on its first eight months in full production mode, which also coincides with the period since CHORUS was named by the US Department of Energy (DOE) as part of its public access solution. CHORUS services and best practices advance public access by streamlining and monitoring public access compliance. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Taylor & Francis appoints Leon Heward-Mills as Global Publishing Director, Journals Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has appointed Leon Heward-Mills as Global Publishing Director, Journals, effective April 2, 2015. As Global Publishing Director, Journals, Leon will provide overall leadership for the editorial team worldwide. Leon's appointment will allow long-serving Publishing Director, David Green, to focus on strategic growth initiatives within Taylor & Francis Group journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Future Science Group announces free access to peer reviewed cancer-focused journals Publisher Future Science Group has announced that it will provide free access to three of its peer-reviewed, cancer-focused journals for the remainder of 2015. The journals, Hepatic Oncology, Melanoma Management, and the International Journal of Endocrine Oncology present the latest findings in their area of research and treatment, together with authoritative reviews, cutting-edge editorials and perspectives that highlight hot topics and controversy in the field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HighWire Press launches Stackly HighWire Press, Inc., a technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced the launch of its latest product, Stackly, a web-based toolset for content collection, organisation, storage, and peer-to-peer collaboration. Stackly enables readers to build article collections without leaving a publication site, increasing productivity and providing new channels for collaboration. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme McGraw-Hill Education announces completely reengineered, tablet-friendly interface for ALEKS McGraw-Hill Education, the learning science company, has announced a completely reengineered, tablet-friendly interface for ALEKS® (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces), an innovative, adaptive learning system that provides an individualised learning experience for K-20 students based on their unique strengths and weaknesses. While the new ALEKS interface will officially be released to existing users on June 1, a free trial version is currently available to everyone. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Boopsie's new AccessILS platform streamlines integration of digital and physical resources for libraries Boopsie, Inc., a mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries, has announced AccessILSTM, a newly available Platform-as-a-Service that combines robust and responsive technology with innovative services to enable digital content providers to libraries and their users to easily and efficiently integrate their content with major ILS'. Aggregators, publishers and other content providers can now get their products to market faster, reduce costs, and provide a better user experience to worldwide library users. 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 (Discovery Versus Filtering and Other Questions Raised by Data-driven Services); Farida Vis (Studies in social data: how industry uses social media for communications and research.); Dr. Maurie Markman (Does a Medical Journal Have Any Responsibility for Serious Misstatements Within Editorial Content?); and Joseph Esposito (The Ubiquitous Bookstore). 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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