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5 June 2017

CiteScore releases 2016 annual values and updates Elsevier, a global information analytics company specialising in science and health, has released CiteScore 2016 annual values and a number of improvements to its set of simple, reproducible serial metrics that cover all journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications in Scopus. CiteScore metrics now include 2016 annual values. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IET calls on the electrical industry to have its say on the 18th Edition of IET Wiring Regulations The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is calling on the electrical industry to have its say and influence the content of the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671), following the release of the Draft for Public Comment (DPC) for BS 7671:2018. The DPC allows users of the IET Wiring Regulations to see the proposed content and put forward their views to JPEL/64, the decision-making committee behind BS 7671. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme German National Consortium and Portico sign digital preservation agreement Digital preservation service Portico and a national consortium of German academic institutions has announced an agreement for consortium member libraries to join the Portico digital preservation service. By participating in Portico, German institutions and the communities they serve will be assured continued access to important scholarly content from across the world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Research Information partners with London Info International to host its first one-day conference Research Information will host its first one-day conference, in partnership with London Info International. 'Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle,' an interactive one-day conference for publishers, information professionals and academics, will be held on December 4 at the Business Design Centre, London. This one-day event will address the most difficult issues in scholarly publishing from the perspectives of three key stakeholder groups - publishers, information professionals and academics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Kathi Kromer new head of ALA Washington Office The American Library Association has announced the appointment of Kathi Kromer as the new Associate Executive Director (AED), Washington, D.C. Office. Kromer will join the ALA Washington Office team on June 5, 2017. Prior to joining ALA, Kromer was with The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Association for 11 years where she was their Vice President, Strategy and Outreach. 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: Robert Harington (Diamond Open Access, Societies and Mission); Andrew Preston and Tom Culley (Formal recognition for peer review will propel research forward); Casey Pickering (How Information Managers Can Explain Usage Data Through Visualisations); Kent Anderson (Detours and Diversions - Do Open Access Publishers Face New Barriers?); and Chelsea Crowley (Seven Global Learning Resources for K-12 Science Classrooms). 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 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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