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23 November 2015

The London Book Fair launches new Trailblazer Awards at the Society of Young Publishers annual conference in Oxford The London Book Fair is launching the new Trailblazer Awards at the Society of Young Publishers annual conference in Oxford (#SYPConf15). The Awards will celebrate publishing professionals under the age of 30 who are demonstrating innovation and ambition in the book industry. The Awards will recognise people who are 'roaring through their 20s' - entry is open to anyone under 30 (as of 12 April 2016) who is making waves in the book world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Royal Society to investigate potential impacts and applications of machine learning in the UK The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, will start a policy project on how machine learning, the powerful technology that allows machines to learn from data and self-improve, might impact the UK society. Machine learning underpins many of the services people rely on every day, including internet search engines, email filters to sort out spam, websites that make personalised recommendations and many of the applications we use on our phones. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Bloomsbury legal titles to be distributed via Thomson Reuters' ProView eReader platform Thomson Reuters and Bloomsbury Publishing have signed an agreement that will see a selection of Bloomsbury's legal print titles distributed as eBooks through Thomson Reuters ProView, the leading professional eReader platform. Through this agreement, the two companies increase the choice of eBooks available to the legal profession and enable anywhere, anytime access to legal texts through an established eReader technology built specifically for business professionals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory elects Regeneron's Dr. George D. Yancopoulos to its Board of Trustees Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced the election of Dr. George D. Yancopoulos, Chief Scientific Officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and President of Regeneron Laboratories, to its Board of Trustees. CSHL is governed by a board of trustees representing the business and scientific communities. 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: Matthew Knott (Academic publications to become less important when funding university research); Rick Anderson (The Death of the Collection and the Necessity of Library-Publisher Collaboration: Young Librarians on the Future of Libraries); Liz Wager (Focusing on the research and not the anecdote); David Smith (Virtual Reality and the Scholarly Publisher); and Max Kemman (Standing on the shoulders of the Google giant: Sustainable discovery and Google Scholar's comprehensive coverage). 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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