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9 November 2017

CHORUS signs MoU with Elsevier to strengthen its services for institutions and funders CHORUS, a not-for-profit organisation committed to making articles reporting on funded research easily and permanently accessible, and Elsevier, an information analytics business specialising in science and health, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding setting out how they will work together to further enhance low-cost compliance options for public access to published research and for institutions to showcase their outputs. Specifically, the MOU enables CHORUS to use Elsevier's Scopus database. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wiley and Kortext partner with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank for etextbook delivery John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global research and learning company, and Kortext, a digital textbook and personal study platform, have secured a partnership with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB). The scheme will provide digital textbooks to every Egyptian citizen and all universities, empowering their students to learn anytime, anywhere. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New Research Information report warns of a 'failing system' in scholarly publishing Research Information has commissioned a new report asking publishers, librarians and researchers about challenges in the scholarly publishing cycle. The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle: Perspectives of a failing system from the publishing, library and research sectors will be published on December 4, and unveiled at Research Information's Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle one-day conference at the Business Design Centre, London. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Italy's LUISS – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli - selects Ex Libris Alma Library Services Platform Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that LUISS – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli - will be building its new and enhanced library services on the Ex Libris Alma® platform while continuing to work with the Ex Libris Summon® discovery solution. The university will be taking advantage of Alma's powerful analytics, streamlined workflows, and unified management of print and electronic resources. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SPEC Survey webcast on Libraries, Presses, and Publishing The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of free webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. The next webcast in this series will cover the Libraries, Presses, and Publishing survey (SPEC Kit 357), which explores the variety of activities that are associated with library publishing, the level of library/publishing/press integration and collaboration with or creation of formal publishing/press operations, and the organisational structuring of these activities and programs. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Gale develops Google Chrome extension for its Opposing Viewpoints In Context database Gale, a Cengage company, has developed a Google Chrome extension for its Opposing Viewpoints In Context database. The extension makes it easier for users to find and access content from Opposing Viewpoints In Context through their library from a Google search, creating a simple and direct path to authoritative digital resources. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme   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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