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31 October 2016

Cell Press selected to publish Molecular Therapy family of journals Molecular Therapy, the official journal of The American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT), has a new home at Cell Press, a publisher of biomedical and chemical research and reviews. This new publishing partnership, to begin in January 2017, will see Cell Press produce and distribute ASGCT's four journals, which include its flagship title along with open-access options Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development, Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids, and Molecular Therapy - Oncolytics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme World Scientific platform now available for orders via the ProQuest OASIS system ProQuest has joined forces with World Scientific to provide libraries with even more choices for purchasing ebooks though the OASIS® system. This collaboration is the latest in a series between ProQuest and a number of sought-after publishers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oxford University Press to publish GigaScience Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its partnership with BGI. Beginning January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP) will publish the open-access, open-data journal, GigaScience. The journal has an international and multidisciplinary editorial board led by Dr. Laurie Goodman as Editor-in-Chief and Dr. Scott Edmunds as Executive Editor. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPARC launches integrated resource to understand, compare federal article and data-sharing policies SPARC has released a new, integrated resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding U.S. federal agencies' article and data sharing policies. This free tool combines a new analysis of federal public access plans for sharing peer-reviewed research articles with the federal data sharing policy resource that SPARC launched earlier this year in partnership with Johns Hopkins University Libraries. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme COAR Annual Meeting 2017 scheduled for May 8-10, 2017 The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Library System (SBA) of the Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, have announced that the next COAR Annual Meeting, scheduled for May 8-10, 2017, will take place in Venice, on the campus of the Università Ca' Foscari. The major theme for this year's meeting will be next generation repositories. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Emerald Group Publishing and Hangzhou Dianzi University announce strategic alliance Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing and Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU) have entered into an agreement for strategic alliance in support of Emerald's Chinese Management Studies (CMS) journal. The collaboration is an extension of an already established working relationship between the two organisations, as HDU is a valued customer of Emerald's online collection of academic journals. 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: Katie Shamash (The impact of article processing charges on libraries and what is being done to help); Alice Meadows (Mind the (Pay) Gap); Dylan Parker (Impact in Action: Understanding open access content usage as it occurs); Carl Straumsheim (Doubts about data: US survey on academic attitudes to technology); and Shannon Parr (Brock hosting Open Access Week events surrounding global movement). 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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27 October 2016

Nature Index 2016 Australia and New Zealand supplement names Melbourne and Sydney as leading hotspots for innovation in Australia According to the Nature Index, Melbourne was Australia's leading city in terms of high-quality science output in 2015, followed by Sydney. The index also shows that Brisbane saw the fastest growth in output between 2012 and 2015, and is home to the highest-placed institution in Australia, The University of Queensland (UQ), which made the largest contribution by share of authorship to high-quality papers than any other institution last year. Overall, Australia's high-quality research output has grown considerably, up by 10% in just three years, placing it 12th in the index's global standings. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO Health and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit partner to expand evidence-based healthcare EBSCO Health has announced a partnership with McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit to ensure that healthcare professionals can make decisions based on the best available evidence. The partnership brings together two of the most established services that provide systematic literature surveillance to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CABI's first open access book tackles global health Scientific publisher CABI, has published its first open access book - Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics case studies from Africa. Written by Gemma Aellah, Tracey Chantler and P. Wenzel Geissler, this book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas and challenges faced while doing global health research. It focuses on places where the effects of political and economic inequality are evident. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Brill appoints Marti Huetink as Publishing Director of the History program Academic publisher Brill has announced the appointment of Marti Huetink, Publishing Director of the History program, effective November 1, 2016. As Publishing Director of the History program at Brill, Huetink will begin coordinating all business development activities of the company in the area of Digital Humanities. Next to his title of Publishing Director, Huetink will carry the title of Program Director Digital Humanities. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ex Libris becomes first global library vendor to establish data center in China Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced the opening of an Ex Libris data center in Beijing, the fifth such center established by Ex Libris worldwide. The decision to set up a Chinese data center results from the rapid growth in the number of Ex Libris customers and prospective customers in the Asia Pacific region. The Beijing data center contributes to the Ex Libris holistic approach to the Chinese market, complementing the company's full support for the Chinese language. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UCL Press becomes first UK publisher to provide OA monographs on the JSTOR platform UCL Press has become the first UK publisher to provide open access monographs on the JSTOR platform. UCL Press books are amongst an initial set of open access books available from four leading publishers, which also includes university presses University of California Press, University of Michigan Press and Cornell University Press. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Language Science Press and Knowledge Unlatched announce partnership Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for- profit company based in England, has announced that it has been selected by the Language Science Press (LangSci) as its partner for creating sustainable funding starting in 2017. Based on its global network of over 380 scholarly libraries, KU will expand to language institutes in order to secure the publication of around 30 high quality linguistic monographs per year from 2018 onwards. This is following up on an initial grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on October 28, 2016 on account of a local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, October 31, 2016. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the October 27th issue.   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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