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7 May 2018

Karger Publishers and BenchSci partnership to help scientists find the right products for their experiments Medical and scientific publishing company Karger Publishers has announced a partnership with BenchSci, a life science machine learning startup, to help scientists find biological product data included in scientific articles faster. The partnership between Karger Publishers and BenchSci will address a common challenge in biomedical research. Researchers have to identify and buy the right biological products for their experiments (e.g. antibodies to measure proteins). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Oxford University Press to publish Integrative Biology Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Royal Society of Chemistry have announced the transfer of the journal Integrative Biology from the Royal Society of Chemistry to OUP. Integrative Biology, currently in its 10th volume, is a multi- and inter-disciplinary journal for research using experimental or computational quantitative technologies to characterize biological systems at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and population levels. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme California Precision Medicine Consortium joins NIH to launch All of Us Research Program The 'All of Us' Research Program officially opened for enrollment on May 6, 2018. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the United States. A major component of the federal Precision Medicine Initiative, the program's ultimate goal is to accelerate research and improve health. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Macmillan Learning, Intellus Learning, and OhioLINK partner to provide students with affordable materials and insights Macmillan Learning, a premier educational solutions and insights provider, and OhioLINK, a consortium of 120 academic libraries distributed among 91 Ohio colleges and universities, have announced a strategic offering designed to make course materials more affordable. This multi-pronged approach includes a textbook pricing agreement and Intellus Learning, a Macmillan Learning product, as a learning tool for participants in a state-wide grant supporting Open Educational Resources (OER) in the state of Ohio. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Deadline for Library Assessment Conference 2018 call for proposals extended to May 11 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Steering Committee have extended the deadline for submitting paper and poster proposals for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference to May 11, 2018. The seventh biennial Library Assessment Conference will be held in Houston, Texas, December 5–7, 2018, and is co-hosted by the University of Houston Libraries and Texas A&M Libraries. 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: Dr Dina Balabanova and Jamie Lundine (How does gender influence the academic publishing process?); Michel Hockx (Journals censorship is not bowdlerisation); George Helffrich (Peer Review's Psychological Potholes); Rick Anderson (Is Copyright Piracy Morally Wrong or Merely Illegal? The Malum Prohibitum/Malum in Se Conundrum); and Adrian Barnett (Random audits could shift the incentive for researchers from quantity to quality). 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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