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7 April 2017

Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) launches with early success There is fresh momentum in the scholarly publishing world to open up data on the citations that link research publications. Six organisations have announced the establishment of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). These include OpenCitations, the Wikimedia Foundation, PLOS, eLife, DataCite, and the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme McGraw-Hill Education to integrate Connect with D2L's Brightspace LMS making it easier for college students to access and use learning materials McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has announced the integration of its Connect digital homework management and learning solution with the D2L's Brightspace learning management system (LMS) in time for Fall 2017 classes. Used by millions of students, McGraw-Hill Connect® embeds award-winning adaptive capabilities and analytics to improve student results. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Université libre de Bruxelles to implement Ex Libris Alma, Primo and Leganto Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Université libre de Bruxelles will be implementing the Ex Libris Alma® library management service, Primo® discovery and delivery solution, and LegantoSM course reading list solution to assist the university libraries in meeting the needs of students and teaching staff, increasing efficiencies, and tightly integrating library systems with campus teaching and learning applications. The university plans to take advantage of the analytics and reporting functions in Alma and Primo to drive evidence-based collection development and strategic planning. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme eLife appoints 85 new editors in 15 subject areas eLife has announced the newest members of the eLife Board of Reviewing Editors (BRE). The Reviewing Editors are responsible for reviewing articles, at the request of the Senior Editors, and recruiting additional reviewers as needed. The Reviewing Editors are responsible for reviewing articles, at the request of the Senior Editors, and recruiting additional reviewers as needed. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AATS to use HighWire Press' Impact Vizor visual analytics suite to inform strategic decisions for its journals program The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) will use Impact Vizor visual analytics suite from HighWire Press to inform strategic decisions for its journals program. Impact Vizor can help the AATS evaluate trends and identify the impact of articles across its publishing program, including the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ACCUCOMS adds Henry Stewart Publications LLP to its portfolio of sales representation customers in India ACCUCOMS has announced the addition of Henry Stewart Publications LLP to its portfolio of sales representation customers in India. Henry Stewart Publications LLP, a vocational publisher based in London, specialises in journals which combine contributions from senior practitioners with applied research from leading academics in the field. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Lakehead University Library and Scholars Portal collaborate on hosted digital preservation pilot Scholars Portal and Lakehead University Library have announced their collaboration on the development of Permafrost, a new preservation service to help protect the unique digital collections held by Ontario's university libraries and archives. Permafrost is a proposed cloud-hosted digital preservation service for members of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). It will provide the preservation processing system Archivematica in conjunction with OCUL's cloud storage network, the Ontario Library Research Cloud. 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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