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16 November 2015

Thomson Reuters names 2015 Top 100 Global Innovators Thomson Reuters IP & Science has released its highly anticipated 2015 Top 100 Global Innovators at The Future of Money: Cashing Out on Cash, one of a series of events honouring and demystifying innovation. The 2015 study reveals significant industry and regional shifts, suggesting that 'survival of the fittest' is now 'survival of the broadest' as companies seek to expand their patent portfolios. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Jisc selects ProQuest to deliver key ebook content to UK Further Education colleges ProQuest has teamed with Jisc to create a custom ebooks collection that provides key texts for Further Education ("FE") Institutions across the UK. The new special collection of 73 titles has been created using content from such publishers as Hodder Education, Bloomsbury, Taylor & Francis, and Pearson, and focuses on core subjects on the syllabus for A Level, BTEC and NVQ students. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Demos Medical Publishing launches new edition of Brachytherapy: Applications and Techniques Demos Medical Publishing, a publisher serving medical professionals in oncology, has announced the release of the second edition of Brachytherapy: Applications and Techniques, the book widely acknowledged as the essential book on the practice since its original 2006 release. The new edition has been thoroughly revised to cover the newest techniques and treatments for this important modality in cancer treatment, and now includes free access to a downloadable e-book version. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Winners of New England Publishing Collaboration Awards announced The New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards, which honour excellence in publishing collaboration, were held on November 10, 2015. Judges selected three winners, and an additional Audience Choice winner was selected by online voting at the event. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Harold Varmus appointed Chairman of F1000 International Advisory Board F1000, the innovative biomedical publishing group, has strengthened its world- leading faculty of researchers in biology and medicine with the appointment of Nobel Laureate and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus as the Chairman of its International Advisory Board. He will begin chairing the advisory group for F1000 on November 2. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPARC, Higher Education groups support Lingua Editors, Open Access Following in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier's practices. The Lingua editors argued that the journal's price has steadily increased year after year, far outpacing the cost of production. The editors also cited Elsevier's refusal to transition the journal to a 'fair open access' model that would charge low and transparent article processing fees for authors, while allowing authors to retain copyright to their articles. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Diversity in Libraries Conference 2016 calls for presentation proposals The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC '16), cosponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), will take place on the UCLA campus August 10-13, 2016. The NDLC '16 Program Committee is inviting presentation proposals that address the conference's theme of 'Bridges to Inclusion,' highlighting issues related to diversity and inclusion that affect staff, users, and institutions in the library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields. Presentation proposals are due by November 30, 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: Roger C. Schonfeld (Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researcher Access to E-Resources); Danielle Padula and Catherine Williams (Applied Altmetrics: How university presses, academic publishing services and institutional repositories benefit.); Donald Barclay (Academic print books are dying. What's the future?); DeWitt Scott (Op-Ed vs. Scholarly Journals); and Ellen Wexler (What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs). 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