Knowledgespeak Newsletter

25 January 2013

Elsevier launches new review journal - Global Food Security STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new review journal - Global Food Security. The launch of the journal is driven by a global concern that scientists and policy makers have great difficulty keeping up with the expanding volume of information about the challenge of meeting human food and nutritional needs while at the same time protecting environmental services. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Serials Solutions unveils Spotlighting service for dynamic display options Serials Solutions has introduced a new feature in its Summon discovery service, named Summon Spotlighting, which provides dynamic display options for specialised content types. Image Spotlighting is said to dramatically improve the discoverability of libraries' most unique and valued collections. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE Open author publication fee discounted to $99 per article Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the price of publication in SAGE Open has been discounted to $99 per article. With this move, the publisher aims to make high quality, peer reviewed open access publishing a more accessible option for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, where often little or no direct research funding is available. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AIP and IOP Publishing create new thesaurus for astronomy community The American Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing, a non-profit scientific publisher, have jointly announced the creation of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) for the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The UAT is expected to help improve future information discovery for researchers. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BMJ Learning and BMJ Quality launch new learning tools for 2013 Medical publisher the BMJ Group has announced that BMJ Learning and BMJ Quality are launching new tools to add to the support and learning it already offers to doctors and other healthcare professionals worldwide. BMJ Learning is now offering four new podcasts modules for those working in primary care, secondary care and appraisers, plus an interview with Professor Sir Peter Rubin, Chair of the General Medical Council. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Informa to publish Chinese Medical Record: English Edition Medical and scientific publisher Informa Healthcare has announced a new partnership with the Chinese Medical Record Association (part of the Chinese Hospital Association under the authority of the Ministry of Health) for the publication of Chinese Medical Record: English Edition. This marks an important step in Informa Healthcare's aim to make high-quality content from China more easily accessible worldwide. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter in deal to publish open access books Research organisation Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) and academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80 individual Max Planck institutes working worldwide. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Pensoft Publishers integrate journal platform with OpenAIRE Academic publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the integration of its editorial management platform (Pensoft Journal System) with its OpenAIRE harvesting mechanism. The integration will ensure that articles funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7) can automatically be tracked by OpenAIRE to make them even more visible and accessible. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Michael Panzer named Editor-in-Chief of Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system Library information provider OCLC has named Michael Panzer, formerly Assistant Editor, as the 10th Editor-in-Chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Panzer is the first DDC Editor-in-Chief from outside the US. He replaces Joan S. Mitchell, who has retired after serving with distinction in the position since 1993. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 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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