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28 September 2015

Elsevier and SciDev.Net study presents evidence-based overview of sustainability research ahead of the UN summit on sustainable development Research that informs sustainable development is experiencing a surge as innovative ways to preserve environmental health and safeguard societal well-being top global leaders' agendas, a report by Elsevier and SciDev.Net, released on the eve of the United Nation's Sustainability Summit shows. Underpinned by the 17 new United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the report examines global research output and citation impact, research collaboration among nations and sectors, and the interdisciplinary nature of research in the field between 2009 and 2013. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Taylor & Francis and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health announce new publishing agreement Academic publisher Taylor & Francis and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) have announced a new publishing agreement. Taylor & Francis will publish IOSH's academic and policy discourse journal – Policy and Practice in Health and Safety (PPHS) from 2016. PPHS is an important source of reference for anyone studying or working at a professional level in health and safety. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thieme to showcase ten new titles at AAO-HNSF 2015 Scientific and medical publishers Thieme Publishers will introduce ten new titles at the annual American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNSF) meeting taking place in Dallas, Texas at the end of September. Featured among these are Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery by Matthew L. Carlson, Kathryn M. Van Abel, David J. Archibald, and Daniel L. Price, and Geriatric Otolaryngology by Robert T. Sataloff, Michael M. Johns III, and Karen M. Kost. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Richard Mollet to step down as Publishers Association chief executive in 2016 The Publishers Association (PA) has announced that its chief executive, Richard Mollet, will step down in 2016 to become head of European Government Affairs at RELX Group (formerly known as Reed Elsevier). At RELX, Mollet will be part of the global government affairs team working across its publishing, business information and exhibitions businesses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ESMO appoints Prof. Christoph Zielinski as Editor-in-Chief of new OA journal, ESMO Open The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced that Professor Christoph Zielinski will be the Editor-in-Chief of ESMO Open, ESMO's new, peer reviewed, open access, online only journal. The journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality medical research and educational content from all disciplines of oncology, with a focus on innovative clinical and translational cancer research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Nominations sought for ALCTS 2016 HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) awards for professional achievement, including the HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions. The deadline for nominations and supporting materials is December 1, 2015. 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: Ann Michael (How Has The Move To Distributed Networks Impacted Scholarly Publishing?); David Matthews ('Overflow' of Scientific Papers); Mathew Ingram (No, e-book sales are not falling, despite what publishers say); Ben McLeod (Bringing together academics and businesses can be a delicate process — What can we do to encourage collaboration?); and David Crotty (The Global Gold Open Access "Flip": A Realistic Plan or Magical Thinking?). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. 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. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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