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27 January 2016

SAGE Publishing and Kudos announce extended agreement Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced an extended partnership with Kudos, an online service for authors, to include all content from SAGE's more than 900 journals. SAGE began a pilot program with Kudos in 2015 and following the success has extended the agreement to two years. By enabling authors to explain their work in plain language, and providing tools to enable them to share their publications, Kudos supports greater research impact. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme All research institutions in Egypt gain access to resources from EBSCO Information Services EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that every research institution in Egypt will soon have access to five resources from EBSCO due to a national project launched by the Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research. The project, The Egyptian Knowledge Bank, selected EBSCO to provide every person in Egypt with easy access to rich information with the aim of furthering scientific research and the formation of Egypt's Knowledge Society. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Nominations for 2016 SSP Emerging Leader Award called for Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 Emerging Leader Award, which will be presented at the 38th SSP Annual Meeting, June 1-3 in Vancouver, BC. Established in February 2012, this award acknowledges the achievements of up-and-coming leaders in scholarly publishing who are demonstrating their potential through outstanding service and contribution. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Authorea closes $1.5 million financing to deliver valuable new tools and capabilities to scholars and researchers worldwide Authorea, the fastest growing science collaboration and publishing platform, has closed a $1.5 million financing to deliver valuable new tools and capabilities to scholars and researchers across the world. The financing was led by Lux Capital, a venture firm that invests specifically in counter-conventional science & technology companies, along with the Knight Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting transformational ideas that foster informed and engaged communities. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Xuemao Wang selected to serve on the steering committee of SPARC Xuemao Wang, dean and university librarian, has been selected to serve on the steering committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). The SPARC Steering Committee provides programmatic decision-making support for the executive director. Committee members are expected to demonstrate leadership and support action to drive constructive change in scholarly communication. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CCC announces enhancements to RightFindTM content workflow solution Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation and the leading commercial document delivery provider, has announced latest enhancements to its cloud-based RightFindTM content workflow solution. RightFind offers users immediate, easy access to a full range of content from thousands of publishers and millions of journals while helping managers optimise those purchases and manage content spend. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioOne and PCG renew worldwide sales and marketing representation agreement The non-profit scientific publisher BioOne has extended its existing global sales and marketing representation contract with consultancy firm Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology. BioOne has been one of Publishing Technology's largest clients since the companies started working together in January 2009, and this new deal will see this relationship continue through to 2019. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald acquires leading sports marketing journal - International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has acquired the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship (IJSMS), one of the top four sports marketing journals in the industry, from International Marketing Reports (IMR). IJSMS, which has an article acceptance rate of 20 percent, provides a vital resource to both academic and industry experts. 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. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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