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29 July 2016

IEEE Access accepted into Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded IEEE Access, an open-access multidisciplinary journal published by IEEE, a technical professional organisation advancing technology for humanity, has been accepted into the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded. Starting with Volume 1 of 2013, IEEE Access will now be included with more than 6,500 notable journals, in the Web of Science, Journal Citation Report, and Current Contents Engineering, Computing and Technology edition. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thieme acquires Brazilian medical publisher Livraria e Editora Revinter Ltda Thieme Publicações Ltda, the Brazilian subsidiary of the Thieme Publishing Group, has announced the purchase of the Brazilian medical publisher, Livraria e Editora Revinter Ltda. Under the terms of the acquisition, Revinter will merge with Thieme Publicações, retaining Sergio and Laercio Dortas as consultants. The current General Manager at Revinter, Renata Barcellos, will take over responsibility for the newly merged company. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first for the fourth consecutive year in Nature Index 2016 Rising Star List The Nature Publishing Group recently released The Rising Stars 2016 List as a supplement, ordering the world's top 100 leading institutions by the increase of their high-quality science papers. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ranks first among peer institutions, indicating that it has become a significant contributor of high-level science papers. The Academy ranks the first for the fourth consecutive year among global science institutions in the Nature Index, according to a Index published by NPG this April. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Concordat on open research data launched Four of the UK's leading research organisations - Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Research Councils UK (RCUK), Universities UK (UUK) and Wellcome Trust - have launched a concordat that proposes a series of clear and practical principles for working with research data. The Concordat on Open Research Data has been developed by a UK multi-stakeholder group and is a set of expectations of best practice reflecting the needs of the research community. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Submissions for new OUP Open Access title, Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System, now open Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that submissions are now open for the new open access title Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System (DSCS) aims to provide a unique forum for the interdisciplinary field of quantitative climate research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Pearson acquires statistical software firm, Integrated Analytics Learning company Pearson has announced the acquisition of Integrated Analytics, LLC (IA), a statistical software company with a focus on education founded by Dr. Webster West. IA's leading product, StatCrunch, is a powerful web-based software that allows users to collect data, perform complex analyses, and generate compelling results and reports. 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 metadata services, abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   Do you have relevant news articles to share with us? Click here to send a press release   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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28 July 2016

Elsevier launches Sherpath, a mobile-first, personalised learning platform STM publisher Elsevier has launched Sherpath, a first-of-its-kind nursing and allied health, adaptive and mobile-first education platform focused on improving student outcomes. Elsevier experts created Sherpath to intersperse flexible content modules with frequent assessments to support just-in-time remediation and successful progression throughout the curriculum. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE Publishing launches new platform for SAGE Research Methods suite of products Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of a new platform for the SAGE Research Methods suite of products. The design of the new site was developed alongside student, academic and librarian user communities to improve discovery and user experiences and to allow users to get to the content they need quicker. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme China is consolidating position as scientific powerhouse, says Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars supplement The Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars supplement identifies the countries and institutions showing the most significant growth in high-quality research publications, using the power of the Nature Index, which tracks the research of more than 8,000 global institutions. It shows that Chinese institutions are leading the world in rapidly increasing high-quality research outputs. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oxford University Press appointed as exclusive distributor of Endocrine Society journals The Endocrine Society has appointed Oxford University Press (OUP) as the exclusive distributor of its journals' digital editions. As part of the partnership, OUP will also sell online and print journal subscriptions to the institutional market worldwide, other than the Society's existing markets in Japan. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Choice and The Charleston Company collaborate on new online review resource for academic databases Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), and The Charleston Company have announced plans to collaborate on a new reference product, an online review source for academic databases and digital resources, with the working name of CC Advisor. CC Advisor will be published on the database platform recently launched at Choice. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Jisc upgrades Janet network Jisc has announced that it is upgrading its Janet network to triple capacity across parts of the network over the next three years. The upgrade will see the core network capacity across some paths increased from 200Gb to 600Gb, improving potential access to distance learning and web-based educational resources while continuing to provide organisations, students, researchers, academics and staff with an efficient, high-speed network that enables effective collaboration. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 1science appoints Scientific Knowledge Services as sales agent in Central Europe and Eastern Europe 1science, a provider of software tools and analytics to accelerate the transition to open access, has announced the appointment of Scientific Knowledge Services (SKS) as its sales agent in Central and Eastern Europe. Scientific Knowledge Services will be responsible for sales of 1science's integrated solution that supports academic libraries in their uptake of open access, optimises their subscriptions management, and increases the visibility of their universities' scholarly production. 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 metadata services, abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).   Do you have relevant news articles to share with us? Click here to send a press release   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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