Knowledgespeak Newsletter

15 April 2013

McGraw-Hill Education launches SCOREboard Adaptive Learning Program to help students prepare for AP Exams McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., has announced the launch of McGraw-Hill SCOREboard, the first AP exam preparation tool built on adaptive technology to help students build the skills and background knowledge they need to succeed on their AP exams. The initiative is part of the company's ongoing efforts to prepare high school students for success in Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest offers archival copies to institutions for digitisation projects ProQuest is offering archival copies to institutions from their digitisation projects. The aim is to help universities to build robust institutional repositories by sharing digital copies of their graduate works which have been converted from paper or microfilm and archived in the ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis database. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SciELO preserves with the CLOCKSS Archive The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with SciELO to preserve their ejournals and ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a 'trigger event' and ensures an author's work will be maximally accessible and useful over time. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Complete 'College & Research Libraries' archives made freely available online The full archive of the Association of College and Research Libraries' official scholarly research journal, College & Research Libraries (C&RL), is now available for free. The online C&RL archive now contains the complete contents of the journal from its beginnings in 1939 through the current issue. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New OCLC Library Spotlight program to increase online visibility for libraries Library information provider OCLC has announced that libraries can now increase their visibility on the Web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program - a free service that works with popular Web services to promote libraries. Yelp, the popular local directory service, has agreed to be one of the first to work with OCLC on this new program. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Nanomedicine publishes special issue on regenerative medicine and tissue engineering Nanomedicine, the international peer-reviewed monthly journal published by Future Medicine Ltd, has published a special focus issue on the topic 'Advanced nanobiomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.' The special focus issue is guest edited by leading researchers in the field from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 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: Joseph Esposito (Disruption Ain't What It Used to Be); Joe Wikert (The future of educational publishing); Andrew M. Seaman (Many medical journals lack ghostwriting policies); David Crotty (Stick to Your Ribs: Going Legit: The Difficult Path from Piracy to Partnership); and Bob Stein (The future of publishing will be shaped by a more dynamic social reading experience). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. 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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