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31 January 2019

Plan S under spotlight at LBF's Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum The London Book Fair 2019's Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum, scheduled to be held on March 13, 2019, will tackle the key issues and trends facing academic publishing, including the impact of 'Plan S' on publishing business models, and the latest on OA monographs. The conference will be chaired by Rachel Bruce from UKRI, and Information Power's Alicia Wise. Keynote speaker David Sweeney is Executive Director of Research England, as well as the Co-Chair of the Plan S Implementation Committee. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UpToDate Advanced now available for all Veterans Health Administration's clinicians Wolters Kluwer, Health, a provider of trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions, has announced that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), a part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has added UpToDate® AdvancedTM to its range of solutions from Wolters Kluwer. The VHA claims to be the largest healthcare system in the US with more than 306,000 full-time clinicians and support staff who care for nine million veterans each year at 172 medical centers and more than one thousand outpatient clinics. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme UCL Press launches new open access megajournal - UCL Open UCL Press has launched its new open access megajournal UCL Open. The journal is now accepting academic research submissions. It is the first university megajournal providing an open access and transparent end to end publishing model, enabling research to be accessible to everyone. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme O'Reilly's new survey explores tools and best practices for advanced analytics and AI O'Reilly, a source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, has announced the results of its 'Evolving Data Infrastructure' survey, which explores the tools companies are using for their advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects and the best practices they have acquired along the way. The research found that more than half (58 percent) of the present companies are either building or evaluating data science platforms - which are essential for companies that are keen on growing their data science teams and machine learning capabilities - while 85 percent of companies already have data infrastructure in the cloud. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme University of Hawai?i System selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo solutions Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Hawai'i (UH) System has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform, which will be integrated with the library's Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. UH will modernise its libraries by reengineering back-end processes and leveraging the future-proof Ex Libris platform and infrastructure to manage all types of resources, both owned and licensed, and make them available to end users. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce renamed as Kaleidoscope program The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce has been renamed as Kaleidoscope program. The name Kaleidoscope signifies responsiveness to fluid landscapes, needs, and cultures, which is an important element of diversity, equity, and inclusion in research libraries and in society more broadly. 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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30 January 2019

Elsevier appoints Kumsal Bayazit as Chief Executive Officer Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced that Kumsal Bayazit has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective February 15, 2019. Bayazit succeeds Ron Mobed who, after seven years as Elsevier's Chief Executive Officer, has decided to retire. Mobed will support his successor during the transition, providing counsel and advice until June. Youngsuk (YS) Chi will remain Chairman of Elsevier. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Institute for Scientific Information unveils Global Research Report – Profiles not Metrics The Institute for Scientific Information, the 'university' of Web of Science Group has launched its Global Research Reports - a new series of publications aimed at those who deal with research in academia, corporations, publishers and governments to inform, to stimulate debate and to demonstrate the rich information potential of research data. The first Global Research Report, 'Profiles not Metrics' draws attention to the information that is lost when data about researchers and their institutions are squeezed into simplified metrics or a league table. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme American Chemical Society expands materials science portfolio with the addition of ACS Materials Letters The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the addition of ACS Materials Letters to its portfolio of journals, responding to the needs of the ever-expanding and fast-paced global research community focused on materials science. ACS Materials Letters will serve as a forum for the rapid publication of high-quality and important contributions on the forefront of fundamental and applied research at the interface between materials and other disciplines, including chemistry, engineering and biology. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BMJ launches new open access journal - Family Medicine and Community Health Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has added a new title to its growing portfolio of more than 60 specialist journals, with the launch of Family Medicine and Community Health. Working in partnership with the Chinese General Practice Press, the journal publishes original research, editorials, reviews and case reports on general practice medicine, covering topics such as public health, chronic disease control and management, and community genetics and counselling. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Leading grantee platform Chronos and preprint server BioRxiv now integrated into the Frontiers academic manuscript submission system Frontiers has announced the integration of Chronos, the grantee platform of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and preprint server BioRxiv into the Frontiers academic manuscript submission system. This integration further simplifies the submission process for Frontiers' authors. The integration of these external research platforms into the Frontiers submission system is the latest development in Frontiers' efforts to continually improve the publishing process and offer ever-more author services. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Copyright Clearance Center and RightsDirect announce RightFind suite for emerging life science companies Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, RightsDirect, have announced the RightFind® suite for emerging life science companies. This content workflow solution provides fast, easy access to a full range of published content - anytime, anywhere - providing a more efficient research process and competitive advantage. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Atypon announces leadership changes Atypon has announced its leadership changes. Atypon's Founder and CEO, Georgios Papadopoulos, has assumed the new role of Chairman, and Marty Picco, Atypon's Senior Vice President of Product, has been promoted to the new role of General Manager. 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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