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31 August 2018

Peer Review Week 2018 to begin September 10 September 10th marks the beginning of Peer Review Week 2018, the latest annual celebration of peer reviewing and its importance in maintaining standards of quality and integrity in research and scientific communication. The week's official activities include webinars and workshops devoted to this year's theme: Diversity in Peer Review. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Researchers at the University of Cambridge gain access to SpringerMaterials The University of Cambridge has joined other institutions around the world in providing its students and researchers with access to SpringerMaterials, a research solution published by Springer Nature for identifying materials and their corresponding properties. Access to SpringerMaterials will support researchers across the University from Materials Science and Metallurgy, Chemistry, and Physics departments, as well as engineering and other related fields. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest News now discoverable via Ex Libris Primo According to a ProQuest 2017 survey, 87 percent of faculty members recommend news sources as a research tool for students - and 72 percent use it themselves. To address the teaching, learning and research needs of the academic community, ProQuest is making more of its digital news content discoverable via Ex Libris Primo, the discovery service that delivers access across the breadth of libraries' print, electronic and digital collections. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Viability of open access books remains uncertain, says Simba report Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released the latest edition of Open Access Book Publishing 2018-2022. The report found that despite multiple years of growth at more than 30 percent CAGR, total revenue generated from book processing charges (BPC) remains small, well under 0.5 percent of total book revenue, comparable in size to a single university press book publisher or a single open access journal publisher. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme MDPI and Qatar National Library establish OA agreement Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has established an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Polish Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology to preserve OA e-journals with Portico Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Polish Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology is preserving Open Access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Established in November of 1928, the journal includes research articles that highlight the importance of better information in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, and rehabilitation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on September 3, 2018 on account of Labor day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the August 31st issue.   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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30 August 2018

Springer Nature signs ASAPbio's open letter promoting transparency in the peer review process Open research publisher Springer Nature is partnering with other publishers in promoting transparency in the peer review process by signing ASAPbio's open letter. As a leading publisher in open research, Springer Nature has long championed the move to greater transparency in peer review in particular through the BMC portfolio, which has a well-established tradition of pioneering new forms of peer review. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Call for submissions open for the Fourth HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award in the Middle East HIMSS Middle East and Elsevier, the global information analytics company specialising in science and health, are calling for submissions for the 4th Annual Middle East HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award 2018. Deadline for submissions is September 17 2018. Winners will be recognised on October 10, 2018, at the HIMSS Saudi Arabia Conference and Exhibition – during the main program ceremony and at the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award dinner on October 10 – in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wolters Kluwer announces impact factor gains across its Lippincott portfolio and Medknow open access titles Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that seven of its Lippincott journals have been ranked #1 based on their 2017 Journal Citation Report (JCR) Impact Factor Score from Clarivate Analytics. An Impact Factor (IF) is a measurement of the frequency by which an article in a scholarly journal is cited in a particular year. Of the 204 Lippincott titles listed in the JCR rankings, 56 percent had gains over the previous year, with 24 journals increasing 25 percent or more. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology to launch in November The Chinese Journal of Academic Radiology will launch in November alongside the 2018 Chinese Congress of Radiology (CCR) in Beijing. The journal is the first English-language publication to address general radiology in China. Zheng Yu Jin, president of the Chinese Society of Radiology, will serve as the journal's first editor-in-chief. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Multifunctional Materials publishes its inaugural issue Multifunctional Materials, a journal serving an emerging field at the convergence of materials science, physics, chemistry, bioscience, and engineering, recently published its first issue. In the first issue of the journal, Trevor Buckner and Dr Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio from Yale University, USA, review how functional fibres could be used in soft robotics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New Zealand's Te Wananga o Aotearoa selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo solutions Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that Te Wananga o Aotearoa has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution, replacing the school's Ex Libris Voyager® integrated library system. Te Wananga o Aotearoa (TWOA) claims to be one of New Zealand's largest institutions of higher education, delivering courses at more than 80 locations. 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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