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15 June 2018

Nature Research and NASA partner for a new Nature conference on the Microbiome of the Built Environment (MoBE) Nature Research and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be convening a new conference designed to guide NASA's approach to interaction with and control of the Microbiome of the Built Environment (MoBE) of future spacecraft including transports, habitats, landers, rovers and spacesuits. Taking place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in the summer of 2019, this three-day event will help to shape NASA's microbiological research goals. Information for people interested in participating will be provided soon. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry sign 'Read and Publish' agreement The MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry have signed a license agreement that incorporates elements of a traditional subscription purchase and open access to scholarly articles. The experimental two-year agreement, known as 'read and publish,' is seen as an important step on the path toward making more research freely and openly available to the world. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE Publishing titles honoured with Textbook and Academic Authors Association Awards Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that four of its titles will receive awards from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) at their annual conference on June 15. TAA's Textbook Excellence Award ("Texty") recognises excellence in current textbooks and learning materials, while the Most Promising New Textbook Award honours first edition works and the McGuffey Longevity Award recognises in-demand textbooks and educational materials that have been in print for at least 15 years. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HighWire becomes first systems supplier to roll out Universal CASA, in partnership with Google Scholar HighWire, the technology partner of choice for leading commercial and scholarly publishers, has become the first systems supplier to roll out the new 'Universal Campus Activated Subscriber Access' service (Universal CASA) in cooperation with Google Scholar. All content published through HighWire's Intelligent Publishing Platform will be compatible with Universal CASA - meaning researchers can access the content anytime, anywhere, from any device and any source. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IOP Publishing launches two new review journals - Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Progress in Energy IOP Publishing has launched two new review journals, Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Progress in Energy, dedicated to biomedical engineering and energy research. To build on the success of Reports on Progress in Physics, and IOP Publishing's established energy and biomedical engineering titles, the new journals focus on authoritative reviews and opinion pieces in the most significant areas of biomedical engineering and energy research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme COAR convenes meeting to discuss implementation of technical recommendations in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Report The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) recently held a meeting of open source repository platforms to talk about the implementation of technical recommendations in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Report. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference in Bozeman, Montana, and was attended by representatives from several of the open source repository platforms. 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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