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30 January 2017

Elsevier announces publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials and four additional veterinary science and zoology books STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials by John E. Cooper and Gordon Hull. It consists of two cross-referenced parts. The first, the book itself, is a review of pathological changes and tissue responses in gorillas. What makes the publication unique is the second part, a comprehensive descriptive catalogue of the location and nature of gorilla material in museums and scientific institutions throughout the world, greatly benefiting research and study. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New OCLC Research report on digitization in public and state libraries The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that OCLC Research has published a new report: Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries. This report summarises the results of a needs assessment and gap analysis of digitisation activities by public libraries and state library agencies in the US. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Education publishers sue Amazon marketplace vendors over counterfeit sales Education publishers Pearson Education, Cengage Learning and McGraw Hill have summoned Amazon to disclose the names and financial accounts of online vendors allegedly selling low-cost pirated copies of the publishers' books via the Amazon marketplace site. According to a report in the Financial Times, the publishers are suing 100 unnamed Amazon marketplace sellers for copyright infringement, accusing the sellers of 'hiding behind the anonymity of internet pseudonyms'. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme CARL releases Roadmap towards sustainable scholarly communication The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a Scholarly Communications Roadmap that presents clear activities it aims to undertake to stimulate positive change towards an open, sustainable, effective and innovative scholarly communication system. The full text of the document is available in English and in French. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Call for Proposals for PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference now open The Public Knowledge Project has issued a Call for Proposals for the PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference to be held in Montreal, Quebec from August 2- 4, 2017. The conference will address issues of community voice, ownership, and control as it relates to open access publishing, global knowledge creation and sharing, open educational resources, citizen rights, scholars as publishers, and open source technologies. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wound Care Education Institute and the Journal of Wound Care announce joint venture to publish new digital journal - Wound Central Wound Care Education Institute® (WCEI) and the Journal of Wound Care (JWC) have entered into a joint venture to publish a new digital journal called Wound CentralTM. The journal offers a unique combination of advanced wound care education as well as practical bedside how-to basics. It provides original research and case reports, written and double blind peer reviewed by leading authorities in the wound care industry. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NRF hosts first African DSpace-CRIS Repository Workshop The National Research Foundation (NRF) hosted a successful DSpace-CRIS workshop at its National Facility the iThemba Labs, in Cape Town from December 4-5, 2016. It was attended by 38 participants including IT administrators, librarians and repository practitioners, drawn from various universities and research councils. 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: Holly Else (How likely are academics to confess to errors in research?); Perry Hewitt (Guest Post: Perry Hewitt - Bringing the Cathedral to the Bazaar: Academic Content and Wikipedia); Ann Rogerson (Free Internet based paraphrasing tools: further threats to academic integrity); Valeria Arza and Emanuel López (Embedding open science practices within evaluation systems can promote research that meets societal needs in developing countries); Cat Williams (Altmetrics for books: a guide for editors). 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? 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