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5 August 2015

Kuansan Wang, Director of the Internet Service Research Centre at Microsoft Research, to give keynote at ALPSP Conference The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced that Kuansan Wang, Director of the Internet Service Research Centre at Microsoft Research, is now confirmed as a keynote speaker at next month's ALPSP Conference. Kuansan will consider how we are on a journey, travelling From Web Publishing to Knowledge Web Publishing. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPARC joins broad coalition in urging Administration to open up access to federally funded educational resources The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), along with a broad coalition of more than 85 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organisations, called on the White House to take administrative action to ensure federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) that are free to use, share, and improve. The call comes in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) request for ideas to strengthen the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan, which is currently under development. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer Media set to acquire Dutch health portfolio from Reed Business Netherlands The board of Springer Media has announced the intended acquisition of the Dutch healthcare publishing activities of Reed Business Netherlands. The portfolio consists of Dutch language books, events and magazines for healthcare professionals. Springer Media, part of Springer Nature, publishes Dutch language professional and educational content under the Bohn Stafleu van Loghum (BSL) imprint. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier launches new open access journal covering all areas of surgery STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of the International Journal of Surgery Open (IJS Open), a new open access journal covering all areas of surgery. This peer-reviewed, online-only journal will make significant contributions to knowledge in clinical surgery, experimental surgery, and surgical education and history widely available to the global surgical community. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers launches 2016 prices for journals, collections and packages Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers has launched the 2016 prices for journals, collections and packages. The journal program for the next year comprises 103 biomedical titles, most of them in English. It includes 20 Open Access journals and 3 new titles. The Price List 2016 for journals of Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers is available at www.karger.com/pricelists. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ringgold releases over 400,000 ISNI numbers for institutions in the Identify Database Ringgold has announced that over 400,000 ISNI numbers for organisations are now available in the Identify Database, representing 99 percent coverage. Ringgold became the first ISNI Registration Agency for institutions in May 2012 and has participated in the standardization of institutional identifiers since 2005. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CCDC and IUCr collaborate to streamline Crystallographic Data Deposition into the Cambridge Structural Database The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) has announced a new collaboration with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) to integrate checkCIF data validation into the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) deposition process. The Crystallographic Information Framework (CIF), maintained by the IUCr, is the standard format used worldwide for representing crystallographic information. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New open access health sciences research repository for Africa to launch during 2015 WLIC in Cape Town BioMed Central, open access publishers and creators of the Open Repository system, and Partnerships for Health Information (PHI) will launch the new open access health sciences research repository for Africa during the Health and Biosciences Libraries section open session during the 2015 WLIC in Cape Town, South Africa. This Biomed Central and PHI initiative, supported by the HBL section and IFLA/FAIFE, is an important boost for those working to create, disseminate and use research-based knowledge in the African health sector. 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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