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26 November 2018

ConTech 2018 awards three student places Three student bursary places have been awarded to attend the inaugural ConTech which opens in just a weeks' time. Two places were originally on offer but due to the high level and quality of the applicants the decision was made to expand the offer to three places. ConTech 2018 takes place at Chelsea Harbour Hotel, London from November 29 – 30, 2018. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer partners with Labster to bring students in Germany cutting-edge science education materials Springer, a global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, has announced a partnership with Labster, connecting traditional textbook material with computer-animated simulations. This collaboration will help to shape the future of science education by changing the way students learn science. The enhanced textbook material is available via Springer's content platform SpringerLink or through purchasing a specific textbook. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Evaluating RDM Tool – a new tool for evaluating your RDM offering Institutions now have a new means at their disposal to aid them in assessing their research data management initiatives, the Evaluating RDM Tool. A collaborative creation, the tool was developed using the SPARC Europe How Open is Your Research service and the Digital Curation Centre's RISE Framework. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thieme Group opens new office in Beijing The Thieme Group, a supplier of information and services contributing to the improvement of healthcare and health, recently opened a new Beijing office to strengthen its presence in the Asian market. The purpose of the office is to build relations with key research institutes and societies, and to support Chinese researchers in their efforts to publish in Thieme's renowned journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Anke Beck appointed to German Council for Information Infrastructure as new member IntechOpen's CEO Anke Beck has been appointed to the German Council for Information Infrastructure (RFii) as a new Council member. By order of the Council of Science and Humanities (Gemeinsamer Wissenschaftsrats) the group of experts is tasked to advise Politics and Academia how to establish and develop the information infrastructures for academia and to formulate German positions in this area. 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: Jon Tennant (Do we need an Open Science coalition?); Tina Brock and Dorie Apollonio (Paving the desire paths of health information needs: Teaching students to edit Wikipedia); Anne Mims Adrian (Challenges in creating open data policies for universities); and Douglas Heaven (AI peer reviewers unleashed to ease publishing grind). 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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