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23 June 2017

The Association of American Publishers welcomes judgment against 'Sci-Hub' pirate site The Association of American Publishers (AAP) welcomes the June 21, 2017 ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York regarding the wilful infringement of scores of scholarly articles protected by copyright law. Ruling in favour of Elsevier, the publisher that brought the action, the Court entered a default judgment against Sci-Hub, the Library Genesis Project, and a number of related sites, and against the defendant operator. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Collaboration essential for the future of the academic book, reveals Academic Book of the Future report Two major new reports demonstrate that the future of the academic book is at a crossroads with the number of new book proposals growing rapidly but sales per title continuing to fall. Researchers on the Academic Book of the Future project are recommending that academics and publishers work together to develop a new vision for the sector that embraces technology and focuses on enhancing the readers experience. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Four Thomson Reuters solutions named finalists for SIIA CODiE Awards Thomson Reuters has announced that four of its products are finalists for the 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards. The awards offer 93 categories that are organised by industry focus on business and education technology. Thomson Reuters solutions were among 205 finalists across the 59 business technology categories. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Syndetics Unbound integrated with Primo and Summon ProQuest and Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, are helping libraries improve the research experience and expand exploration by integrating ProQuest® Syndetics Unbound with the Ex Libris Primo® and Summon® discovery services. The integration with ProQuest® Syndetics Unbound, a groundbreaking online enrichment service, enables libraries to create a better discovery experience for today's researcher while maximising the value of their collections. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The American Society of Plant Biologists' flagship journals now live on HighWire Press's JCore platform The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) has announced that its two flagship journals, The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology, are now live on HighWire's JCore platform. The Society will demonstrate the new sites at their upcoming Plant Biology 2017 annual meeting in Hawaii, which starts this June 24. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Michael Thoennessen appointed new APS Editor-in-Chief Nuclear physicist Michael Thoennessen has been selected to become APS Editor in Chief at the end of August 2017. Currently an Associate Director of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) in Lansing, Michigan, and University Distinguished Professor of Physics at MSU, he was appointed following a vote of the APS Board of Directors on June 16. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Figshare and ASHA partner to enhance discoverability and reuse of research outputs Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced a new partnership with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to showcase supplementary research outputs within the communication sciences and disorders discipline. Research outputs published across ASHA's peer-reviewed scholarly journals will be aggregated under one portal. The new customised Figshare portal is available at asha.figshare.com. 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 Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) Services, Knowledge Modeling Services (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction Services.   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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