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23 June 2015

Digital instructional materials gaining ground in Science/STEM Education, says new EMR/Simba Information study The national trend of shifting to the use of digital instructional materials in the classroom is affecting science/STEM education, according to findings in Science/STEM Market 2015, a new study from Education Market Research (EMR)/Simba Information. The report also addresses how widespread school districts are adopting Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and instituting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme International Association for Continuing Education and Training awards accreditation status to Elsevier's DirectCourse The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded accreditation status to Elsevier's DirectCourse, which provides online learning designed to train the direct service workforce that supports persons with disabilities by helping them remain in home and community settings and assisting them to be employed. The online training curricula will now offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to individuals seeking to acquire or maintain professional licenses and/or certifications. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Italy to implement ORCID on a national scale, signs three-year consortium membership agreement The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that Italy will be implementing ORCID on a national scale, and has signed a three-year consortium membership agreement with ORCID. Under the auspices of ANVUR and CRUI (the Conference of Italian University Rectors), 70 universities and four research centers will initially participate in the consortium. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Optical Society journal portfolio continue to lead in the Optics Category in new JCR rankings The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its journal portfolio again leads the Optics category in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) (Thomson Reuters, 2015). Not only does OSA remain the foremost publisher in the field with the largest number of articles published (35%), but its high quality content also received the most citations (45%) of the 86 titles included in this year's Optics category. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Gale indexes millions of pages of content with Google and library discovery services for easier access and improved researcher workflow Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is supporting discovery by working with Google to index millions of documents in Google Scholar, and expanding the amount of content indexed by major library discovery services. In addition, Gale is promoting transparency in discovery through compliance with industry information standards to improve results for researchers and libraries. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SICOT-J publishes first articles The first articles of the new open access journal SICOT-J are now available. SICOT-J is a fully Gold open access journal in orthopaedics and traumatology. The journal places a high priority in rapid publication and seeks to publish a broad range of research study types including original clinical, basic and translational research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Portico tackles the 'long tail,' focuses on small publishers Digital preservation specialist Portico has grown to include more than 300 participating publishers—representing more than 2,000 societies and associations—and more than half are small publishers. The recent increase in signings of 'small' publishers that produce ten titles or fewer is a result of community feedback. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Penton announces new appointments to lead growth in marketing services Penton, an innovative professional information services company, has appointed Barbara Couchois to the newly created role of vice president, marketing monetisation and named George Assimakopoulos head of client services, to drive the company's exceptional growth in marketing services. The company's marketing services group has more than doubled over the last three years and is expected to eclipse $40 million in revenue this year. 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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