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12 November 2013

A new fine chemical propels CAS REGISTRY cross the 75 million mark Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, registered its 75 millionth small molecule. CAS REGISTRY, traditionally known for providing access to substances reported in the literature back to the early 1800s, now contains this substance identified in a chemical catalogue. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier announces addition of new content types to Mosby's Nursing Consult STM publisher Elsevier has announced the addition of new content types to Mosby's Nursing Consult. The latest edition will be available in early November, along with an enhanced mobile app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android. New content has been added for diseases and disorders, labs and diagnostics, and more. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Thomson Reuters and SHEDL collaborate to advance Scotland's Global Research Impact The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a five-year commitment between the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) and Thomson Reuters to advance the global impact of Scotland's research efforts through citation connections within the Web of Science. Thomson Reuters Web of Science provides a single destination for the world's largest collection of research data, publications, proceedings and patents to be utilised from the initial stage of discovery through the application of scholarly research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Broad coalition urges senate to reauthorize COMPETES Act The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has joined more than 300 universities and businesses; higher education associations; and non-profit, industry, and research organisations in a letter (PDF) to US Senate Commerce Committee leadership supporting reauthorisation of the America COMPETES Act. The COMPETES Act promotes innovation through research and development to improve the competitiveness of the United States. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme PeerJ announces significant new benefit for authors Open access publisher PeerJ has announced that all authors can now make unlimited submissions to PeerJ PrePrints, entirely for free. Previously authors without a PeerJ publication plan could only publish one free preprint per year. PeerJ launched 'PeerJ PrePrints,' an innovative pre-print server for un-peer reviewed articles in the biological, health and medical sciences, in April 2013. Since that time, almost 100 preprints have been published, some of which have received more than 5,000 views. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HathiTrust announces intention to become a DPN replicating node HathiTrust recently announced its intention to become a 'replicating node' in the Digital Preservation Network, contingent upon acceptable terms and conditions for doing so. HathiTrust is one of five institutions or consortia that have been collaborating over the past year to build a robust technological infrastructure for DPN. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme F1000Research launches data plotting tool at Neuroscience meeting in San Diego Open Access life-sciences journal F1000Research launched a new data plotting tool at the ongoing Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. The tool enables referees and readers to visualise and manipulate the raw data within the journal's articles. This is a significant step forward in enabling data peer review, which has typically been too time consuming for most article referees to contemplate. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IDSA announces new OA journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has named Dr. Paul Sax as the editor-in-chief of the Society's new peer-reviewed, open access journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID). Oxford University Press (OUP) will begin publishing the new journal in early 2014. 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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