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23 October 2017

New York is shaping up to be a biotech hub, reveals Nature Index 2017 Science Cities supplement The recently published Nature Index 2017 Science Cities supplement reveals that New York is poised for a boom in the life sciences. While the city is rich with talent in the discipline, less money has historically been invested in New York-based companies because the city's high costs and a lack of lab space have made it difficult for start-ups to thrive. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AIP Publishing and STM Association announce Jason Wilde as Chair, STM Board of Directors AIP Publishing and The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), a global trade association for academic and professional publishers, have appointed Jason Wilde as Chair of the STM Board of Directors at the association's annual meeting in Frankfurt. Wilde will lead the 15-member STM Board as the association approaches its 50th Anniversary next year. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EDP Sciences and TIB sign agreement to publish OA conference proceedings Not-for-profit publisher EDP Sciences recently signed a partnership agreement with the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - German National Library of Science and Technology - to support the publication of conference proceedings in a number of STM fields. The agreement will enable the TIB to publish all German conference proceedings in the areas of Physics, Engineering and Technology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Sciences in the Web of Conferences journal series at a special discounted rate. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Techstreet announces partnerships with CRSI, EEMUA and FRPI Industry codes and standards provider Techstreet, a Clarivate Analytics business, has announced its partnerships with the Standard Developing Organizations of Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI), Engineering Equipment and Material Users Association (EEMUA), and Fiberglass Reinforced Products Institute (FRPI). The publishers offer construction and safety standard documents to users that serve a wide range of industries including building and construction, oil and gas, manufacturing and processing, and more. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme DOAJ and Scientific Knowledge Services partner to achieve broader support for open access to scientific literature The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has announced the agreement with Scientific Knowledge Services (SKS) as its exclusive agent in a selection of countries from the EMEA region. Scientific Knowledge Services will be responsible for facilitating financial support to DOAJ and in this way contribute to the work of DOAJ to assess and promote quality, peer reviewed open access journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Washington Research Library Consortium extends Ex Libris Alma and Primo implementation to additional libraries of member universities Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the number of libraries participating in the Ex Libris Alma® and Primo® implementation at the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) has recently increased to 16. Georgetown University's Law Library, American University's Pence Law Library, and George Washington University's Jacob Burns Law Library and Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library will now be able to take advantage of the consortium's implementation of the Alma library management service and Primo discovery and delivery solution. 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: Philip Cohen (The next stage of SocArXiv's development: bringing greater transparency and efficiency to the peer review process); Joshua Clark (10 tips for promoting your research online); Mike Iarrobino (5 Ways to Apply Semantic Search Across Your Organization); and Phil Davis (Difficulty In Finding Reviewers Taints Editorial Decisions). 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 trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.   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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