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19 November 2018

Arab Open University students in all major courses gain access to McGraw-Hill Connect course materials A new agreement that expands the collaboration among Arab Open University (AOU), McGraw-Hill Education and Growmore will make McGraw-Hill's high quality digital content available to students at AOU's nine branches in the Middle East and Africa. Students in all major first- and second-year course areas will gain access to McGraw-Hill Connect® digital course materials. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Scholastica users can now deposit articles automatically into Portico Journals using Scholastica Open Access Publishing can now have their articles automatically deposited into the Portico digital preservation service. Journals that use Portico can now request to have their Scholastica and Portico accounts connected so that all of the articles they publish via Scholastica are deposited into Portico. Any time journals update an article Scholastica will also automatically deposit the new version into Portico, so the archive always has the latest content. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cengage and University of Missouri System partner to offer Cengage Unlimited subscriptions to all students Cengage, an education and technology company, has announced that the University of Missouri System will be offering Cengage Unlimited subscriptions to all students enrolled in Cengage courses beginning in January 2019. Cengage provides course materials to 11 million of the 20 million students pursuing higher education. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL, Wikimedia, and Linked Open Data - Draft white paper open for comments through November 30 In June 2018, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) charged a task force to look at Wikidata. The task force emerged from several years of discussion between ARL and the Wikimedia Foundation on where the two communities can effectively collaborate. Members of the task force presented elements of this work at the WikiConference North America in October. The task force has circulated this draft white paper for open community comment through November 30. Comments may be provided within the document, or by email to Judy Ruttenberg. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OCLC and Atlas Systems to develop ILLiad for library community Non-profit global library cooperative OCLC and Atlas Systems have a long-standing partnership, and both companies are focused on putting library needs first. As a result, in addition to continuing the rapid development of Tipasa, the industry's first cloud-based ILL management system, OCLC and Atlas Systems have decided to continue to develop ILLiad for the library community. 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: Pierre Montagano (Transforming the Research Paper into a Functional Tool); Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, and Gert G. Wagner (The overall incidence of published replication studies in economics is minuscule – greater incentives are required); Alexander C. Kafka (Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing?); and Richa Bhatia (How AI Is Tackling Fake Academic Research That Is Plaguing Scientific Community). 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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