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30 September 2015

Elsevier to introduce next-generation personalised learning solution, Sherpath , at NLN Education Summit STM publisher Elsevier will unveil its new, next-generation personalised learning solution at the National League for Nursing (NLN) Education Summit, from September 30 - October 2, in Las Vegas. The first of its kind for nursing education, Sherpath uses data, analytics and adaptive techniques to track students' interactions with content, assessments and simulations while providing a highly focused learning path for each student. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer unveils Lippincott CoursePoint+ to aid nursing schools in preparing students to effectively transition to practice Professional information services provider Wolters Kluwer has released Lippincott CoursePoint+, a fully integrated and personalised platform that drives course and curriculum success to prepare students for practice. Lippincott CoursePoint+ is a single destination for learning where faculty and administrators can assess student performance in real-time to make data-driven teaching decisions, facilitating early remediation at the point of learning. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cornell University Library and ProQuest partner for faster, more efficient book selection and acquisition ProQuest is working with Cornell University Library to develop a dynamic book-selection system that will aggregate metadata from multiple sources into a single streamlined interface. This will enable highly efficient selection and acquisitions workflows. The custom interface is part of a new agreement in which Cornell University Library will use ProQuest as the primary source for its English-language print books, a significant expansion of Cornell University Library's long-standing relationship with Coutts Information Services for print and ebook Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) programs. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IEEE launches IEEE Collabratec, a new centralised hub connecting technology professionals worldwide IEEE, the world's largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, has announced the launch of IEEE Collabratec, a suite of online tools that enables technology professionals around the world to network, collaborate, create, and discover new career opportunities — all within a centralised hub. This new, integrated, online community is a global solution for connecting technology professionals by location, technical interests, or career pursuits. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE's Ziyad Marar joins the board of leading academic news site in the UK, The Conversation Academic publisher SAGE and The Conversation, a major online news website supporting access to high quality academic research, have announced that Ziyad Marar, SAGE's Global Publishing director, will be joining The Conversation's board. Originally launched in Australia in 2011 and now their largest independent news site, The Conversation UK, brings a unique combination of academic rigor and journalistic flair to the world of academic research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The International Union of Crystallography launches new journal platform The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has launched a brand new IUCr Journals website, for researchers involved in structural determination. The new design is clean, bright and adaptable to different screen sizes. Many subtle changes have been introduced to the article format to help improve the overall clarity of the HTML text. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald appoints Harriet Bell to its leadership team Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the appointment of Harriet Bell to the new position of Marketing Director, taking responsibility for the development and delivery of the company's marketing operations worldwide. Harriet joins Emerald following a 20-year career primarily in scholarly and academic publishing, most recently as VP, Journal & Data Solutions at RELX Group. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Publishing Technology and Altmetric announce new partnership Altmetric and Publishing Technology have announced a new partnership that will enable publishers hosting content on the ingentaconnect platform to embed Altmetric badges onto their article pages, giving greater visibility of online impact data for their titles. Under the new arrangement, ingentaconnect publishers will benefit from a streamlined integration process, making it easy for them to track and review the online attention data Altmetric will collect relating to their published content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. 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Knowledgespeak Newsletter

 

29 September 2015

Scope's Hot Spot presentation at Frankfurt Book Fair to focus on Deep Indexing for Enhanced Researchability Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, will be presenting on "Deep Indexing for Enhanced Researchability" at the Professional & Scientific Information (Hall 4.2) Hot Spot stage on October 14, 2015 from 10.30 – 11.00 am at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair. In this session, Deborah Harman, Associate Vice President, Business Development for Scope e-Knowledge Center, will offer practical examples of deep indexing with human curation by SMEs to enhance researchability. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier and NADONA/LTC announce collaboration on eLearning product STM publisher Elsevier has announced a collaboration in the development of Mosby's Care Assistant Curriculum with the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care (NADONA/LTC), the largest organisation dedicated exclusively to providing education, communication, and services to nurse leaders and nurse executives in the long-term and post-acute care continuum. This online course will serve as a resource for training new nursing hires, transitioning personnel to new units, addressing knowledge gaps, and preparing for annual competency testing. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Future Science Group announces support for campaign to improve clinical trial reporting Publisher Future Science Group (FSG) has announced its support of the AllTrials campaign. The AllTrials campaign aims to improve transparency and reporting of clinical trials. These aims align with those of Future Science Group (FSG), which believes that every trial should be conducted in a transparent and reproducible manner, ensuring that all research, even where negative or inconclusive, is both trustworthy and available to inform medical decision-making. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre to add 19 million records to WorldCat The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), a library consortium in Germany's most populous state, has signed an agreement with OCLC to add 19 million bibliographic records from the consortium to WorldCat, making these valuable collections more visible and accessible to scholars around the world. Based in Cologne, hbz works as a central development and service organisation for university, college and specialised libraries, as well as data processing centers in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ALPSP, CCC webinar to focus on how society publishers can extend their global outreach The Association of Learned and Professional Publishers (ALPSP) and Copyright Clearance Center have announced a webinar titled 'Make a World of Difference: How society publishers can extend their global outreach.' This is a must attend event for those with responsibility for collaborative partnerships or strategic input into publishing, marketing, sales or business development. The session is scheduled for October 26, 2015, online 11:00 - 12:30 ET. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CABI and Book Aid International collaboration brings scientific publications to students in sub-Saharan Africa Not-for-profit organization CABI and Book Aid International are collaborating to bring specialist scientific books on agriculture and tropical health to students at universities, medical schools and colleges in sub-Saharan Africa. The books have been carefully selected for institutions like the Mzuzu Agriculture Vocation College in Malawi and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya to help students and staff with their studies and teaching. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Sheridan expands print management system to accommodate self-service Pod orders Sheridan has expanded its automated print management system, Sheridan Select, to include a self-service component granting publishers the ability to upload a book or journal title and place a print-on-demand (POD) order within a single transaction. Upon logging in to the Sheridan Select portal and initiating a POD order, publishers are now provided the ability to define and order brand new titles in addition to selecting from their existing titles. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. 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