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20 May 2019

Springer Nature updates policy to encourage preprint sharing for its journals Springer Nature has announced an updated policy encouraging preprint sharing for Springer Nature journals. This intends to remove ambiguity on two important points. All Springer Nature journals will adopt a unified policy that encourages preprint sharing and provides further details on preprint licensing, citation and communications with the media. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Atairos acquires ownership position in ProQuest ProQuest, a global leader in educational technology, and Atairos, an independent private company focused on supporting growth-oriented businesses, have announced that Atairos will acquire an ownership position in ProQuest. ProQuest will use the proceeds from the transaction to repurchase most of the shares owned by entities affiliated with the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, which will retain a minority interest in the Company. Cambridge Information Group (CIG) will maintain its majority ownership of ProQuest. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ConTech 2019 first draft programme released ConTech.Live has announced the release of the ConTech 2019 first draft programme. At ConTech, delegates get ground-breaking insights into the biggest technical revolution to hit the content world since the birth of the internet – the intersection of data science and content. This year attendees will get to hear from innovators, pioneers and businesses taking a futuristic approach to what they do. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Future Science Group set to launch The Evidence Base at the upcoming ISPOR 2019 Conference Future Science Group (FSG) will be launching their newest resource, The Evidence Base, at the upcoming ISPOR 2019 Conference. The Evidence Base is a free-to-join, online community to share knowledge, discuss the latest research and continue developments in real-world data and its applications to real-world problems in healthcare. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme DOAJ reaches its funding target to cover operational costs The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has reached its funding target to cover its operational costs as outlined in its SCOSS application. Eight consortia and 175 institutions/organisations from 18 different countries have committed support to DOAJ. There are organisations that have already made the decision to help fund DOAJ, but are still deliberating over the details of their financial commitment. Furthermore, the SCOSS Board has allowed DOAJ to present a new work package, both to these organisations and any additional organisations that come forward in 2019. 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: Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield and Peter Willett (Guest Post - A Study of Commenting on PLOS Articles); Kurt Heisler (Is Your APC Workflow Working?); Inez van Korlaar (Find out who's talking about your funded and Open Access research); Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn and Mikael Laakso (Open and closed - What do reverse flips tell us about the scholarly publishing landscape?); and Gwen Evans (Guest Post: Evaluating Open Access in a Consortial Context). 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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