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8 February 2016

Elsevier wins eight PROSE Awards categories, including Award for Excellence, and nine honorable mentions STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it has won top honours in eight 2016 PROSE Awards categories, including a PROSE Award for Excellence, and nine honourable mentions. The 40th annual PROSE Awards - the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence - were presented at the Association of American Publisher's Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Conference in Washington, DC. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ITHAKA S+R releases new report on costs of publishing scholarly monographs AAUP heralds ITHAKA S+R's publication of 'The Costs of Publishing Monographs: Towards a Transparent Methodology.' The study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and conducted by Nancy Maron and Kimberly Schmelzinger, developed a ground-up, activity-based methodology for understanding the full cost of publishing high-quality university press monographs. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme European University Association publishes 'Roadmap on Open Access to Research Publications' European University Association (EUA) has published its 'Roadmap on Open Access to Research Publications' after an endorsement from the EUA Council at its meeting on January 29, 2016. The main objective of the roadmap is to assist universities in the transition to Open Access (OA). More broadly, it is the first step in a series of EUA initiatives aimed at addressing the implications of Open Science. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New publishing platform to improve reproducibility of preclinical research Championed by Amgen's Senior Vice President for Research, Sasha Kamb, and former Editor-in-Chief of Science and F1000Research International Advisory Board member Bruce Alberts (University of California, San Francisco), the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel is open for everyone to publish and discuss confirmatory or non-confirmatory scientific research results. The channel will provide an environment for reinforcing the acceptability of being open about the results of researchers who are attempting to assess the robustness of major scientific findings, whether they are confirmatory or not. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SHARE initiative to host preconference workshop and curate-a-thon at FORCE2016 Conference The SHARE initiative is offering a preconference workshop and curate-a-thon on April 17 in Portland, Oregon, at the FORCE2016 Conference organised by FORCE11, which aims to improve knowledge creation and sharing by encouraging better use of new technologies. SHARE is building a free, open data set of research and scholarly activities across their life cycle in order to make such output widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme National Library of Medicine unveils MedPix, a free online medical image database The National Library of Medicine has announced the launch of MedPix®, a free online medical image database originally developed by the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The URL is https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ingram Content Group announces leadership change Ingram Content Group has named Pep Carrera as Chief Operating Officer of VitalSource Technologies Inc., Ingram's leading educational platform company. Carrera will transition into this role from his current position as Chief Information Officer at Ingram. Kent Freeman, currently VitalSource's COO, will move into a newly created strategic position at Ingram Content Group as Chief Strategy and Development Officer. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ICIS launches Data Express, introduces two new data delivery options ICIS, a trusted source of market intelligence for global chemical, energy and fertilizer markets, has enhanced its market intelligence delivery platforms with a new service, Data Express, which offers two options to make downloading and organising data easier for customers. Subscribers to ICIS can now choose to access their data via an application programming interface (API) streamed directly into their proprietary systems or via a Microsoft Excel plug-in, depending on which service best suits their business needs. 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: Paolo Mangiafico (Should you #DeleteAcademiaEdu? On the role of commercial services in scholarly communication); Phil Davis (As PLOS ONE Shrinks, 2015 Impact Factor Expected to Rise); Daniel Johnston (Why Peer Review Recognition Matters to Universities); Jon Tennant (Advances in peer review) and Matt Goolding (Three Brilliant Publishers Doing Things Differently). 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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