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25 January 2016

Elsevier's new ECC Webcasts platform offers free access to webcasts of the European Cancer Congress A new online platform, run by Elsevier and hosted by the European Journal of Cancer (EJC), seeks to provide healthcare professionals free access to a selection of lectures from Europe's biggest cancer conference, providing them with the latest research on a variety of cancers and treatments. The ECC Webcasts platform features webcasts of some of the ECCO ESMO Industry Sponsored Satellite Symposia. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Five Wiley journals become open access Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced the conversion of five of its leading journals to the Wiley Open Access Program. All articles in Plant Biotechnology Journal, GCB Bioenergy, Health Expectations, Atmospheric Science Letters, and Clinical and Translational Science will be free to read, download and share, effective January 1, 2016. The addition of these journals to Wiley's Open Access Program brings the total number of Wiley's open access titles up to 61. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE publishes The Metric Tide review into the role of metrics in Research Assessment Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has published, in print, the authoritative independent review on the role of metrics in research assessment, The Metric Tide. First released online only in July 2015, The Metric Tide is the final report from the Independent Review of the Role of Metric in Research Assessment and Management. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer e-book underscores value proposition of integrated clinical decision support to driving adoption of evidence-based care The Health division of Wolters Kluwer has announced the release of a complimentary e-book that demonstrates the critical role of integrated clinical decision support (CDS) to driving value and optimising patient care in today's healthcare environments. Integrated Clinical Decision Support: Accelerating Adoption of Evidence-Based Care for Optimal Outcomes outlines the evolution of CDS technology and effective implementation of integrated solutions as a foundational strategy for improving overall clinical and financial performance. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Institute of Informatics in Japan and COAR to co-organise meeting of the Asian OA Community in Tokyo The National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan and COAR are co-organising a meeting of the Asian OA Community in Tokyo, Japan on March 4th, 2016 in conjunction with the Research Data Alliance meeting. The aim of this meeting is to establish an Asian community of practice which can share OA related experience and hot topics between members. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Blackboard announces two new options for deploying its Blackboard LearnTM LMS via Software-as-a-Service Blackboard Inc., the world's leading education technology company, has announced two new options for deploying its flagship learning management system (LMS) Blackboard LearnTM via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Blackboard Learn SaaS Plus and Blackboard Learn SaaS Advantage are now available for higher education institutions in the United States. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Universities in the UK and Egypt sign partnership agreements to develop scientific research and increase opportunities for student and staff exchanges Universities in the UK and Egypt have reportedly signed 10 partnership agreements aimed at building scientific research and increasing opportunities for student and staff exchanges. The memoranda of understanding and letters of intent were signed on January 20 during the visit of an Egyptian higher education delegation to the UK, organised by the British Council. 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: Michael Kozlowski (The e-Reader Industry Needs to Address e-book Content Errors); Mike Taylor (The world needs One Repo); Joseph Esposito (The Network Model of Publishing); Ann Michael (Ask The Chefs: What Do You See On The Horizon For Scholarly Publishing In 2016?); Ron Johns (Lessons learned) and David Matthews (Journals and publishers setting sights on the unwary). 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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