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19 June 2015

NISTEP collaborates with Thomson Reuters to standardise titles of research funders in Web of Science The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters have announced a collaboration to standardise definitions of research funding organisations by analysing and updating funders' acknowledgements within the Web of Science. The creation of unified titles and definitions for funding organisations will ease the burden on researchers and better facilitate relations between funding resources and research outcomes. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier and Ex Libris collaborate to offer automated updates to subscribed e-content STM publisher Elsevier has announced an expanded collaboration with library automation services provider Ex Libris. The collaboration will enable mutual customers of Elsevier's ScienceDirect and the Ex Libris Alma® library management solution and SFX® OpenURL link resolver, to benefit from a fully automated workflow that will keep the library full text access levels up to date for both journals and books. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO Partners with Masaryk University Press, adds more Czech titles to EBSCO eBook offerings EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Masaryk University Press have collaborated to offer more than 80 Czech titles via EBSCO eBooks. The titles from Masaryk University Press will provide libraries with more multidisciplinary Czech titles representing a wide range of fields – including social science, historiography, linguistics and literary science, archaeology, genetics and many others – from highly specialised scientific publications to significant books aimed at the general public. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE' new SAGE Research Methods Datasets resource to teach research methods through practice Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of SAGE Research Methods Datasets, a new resource that supports the teaching and independent learning of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods used in the social sciences. Using real-world data from around the world accompanied by step-by-step instructions, this resource teaches statistical and analytical techniques used in Business, Education, Health, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology, among other disciplines. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AAUP 2015 convenes in Denver The Annual Meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has convened in Denver, with more than 650 scholarly publishing professionals in attendance at the Sheraton Downtown Denver. The theme of this year's conference, being held from June 18-20, is 'Connect, Collaborate,' highlighting the increasingly cooperative and networked nature of publishing and scholarship. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Association for Computing Machinery names Indiana University's Robert Schnabel as executive director and CEO The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Robert ("Bobby") Schnabel executive director and CEO effective November 1, 2015. Schnabel joins ACM after eight years as professor and dean of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. As ACM's most senior staff member, Schnabel will work with ACM's volunteer community to provide strategic vision and to develop sustainable business models to ensure ACM's continued worldwide membership, publications and revenue growth. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme F1000Research and INCF join forces to create digital, open access community journal Open science publishing platform F1000Research is working in partnership with the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) to create a dedicated, digital, open publishing solution for INCF's members and the expanding neuroinformatics community. The new INCF Community Journal will provide an affordable, open publishing channel to capture research from the INCF Neuroinformatics Congress and workshops. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Figshare included in the 'Cool Vendors in Education, 2015' report by Gartner Figshare, an online repository for academic researchers to securely store, manage, publish and share all their research, has been included in the 'Cool Vendors in Education, 2015' report by Gartner, Inc. The report evaluates vendors that have been innovative in bringing digital productivity tools directly to teachers, researchers, and even parents and children. 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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