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29 August 2016

Brill celebrates 333rd anniversary at 23rd Beijing International Book Fair Academic publisher Brill celebrated its 333rd year anniversary at the 23rd Beijing International Book Fair (August 24 – 28). Several key events took place that are of strategic importance to Brill's presence and growth in China. The festive Brill reception held on August 24 was opened by Long Xiao, Deputy Director, Peking University Library. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BioMed Central expands BMC-series portfolio with the launch of BMC Zoology Open access publisher BioMed Central recently launched BMC Zoology, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal within the BMC series. BMC Zoology will increase and disseminate zoological knowledge through the publication of original research, methodology, database, software and debate articles. All launch articles are openly and freely available on the journal website. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Celebrating 45 years of WorldCat WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive database of information about library collections, recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of its launch. On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog (now known as WorldCat) began operation. From a single terminal, cataloguers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, were able to catalogue 133 books online that day. Today, WorldCat comprises more than 380 million records representing more than 2.4 billion titles in libraries worldwide. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RCNi partners with Impelsys to launch native mobile apps to aid RCNi Learning RCNi, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, has announced a partnership with Impelsys to launch native mobile apps to support their online learning platform, RCNi Learning. The apps that are now live on iOS App Store and Google play Store will allow users to access the learning resources and sync their progress across all devices seamlessly. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme First Databank Europe launches Web API Solution for fast, reliable, and secure access to FDB Multilex First Databank Europe (FDB), part of the Hearst Health network and one of the leading providers of clinical drug knowledge that assists to improve medication-related decisions and patient outcomes, has launched a web API version of solution FDB Multilex. The launch supports NHS England's directive as part of the interoperability charter for all hospitals to be paperless at the point of care by 2020. 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: Phil Davis (Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World); Jian Wang, Reinhilde Veugelers and Paula Stephan (Bias against novelty in science: A cautionary tale for users of bibliometric indicators); David Matthews (eLife reveals publication costs to spark debate on journal prices); Scott McLemee (Increase Scholarly Visibility Using This One Weird Trick!) and William Kowalski (Crowd Funding a New Path to Publishing?). 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 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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