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3 February 2014

California Digital Library and Elsevier renew contract for next 5 years The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced that it has completed a favourable negotiation with STM publisher Elsevier to renew the ScienceDirect journals for 2014-2018. As part of the final agreement, CDL has purchased Elsevier's 2014 ebook frontlist (858 titles, excluding health sciences) and one year of trial access to the Scopus database on behalf of all campuses. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Occam's Reader Project and Springer announce agreement to run eBooks Interlibrary Loan Pilot program with GWLA members The Occam's Reader Project – comprising Texas Tech University, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) – and STM publisher Springer have entered into an agreement to run a pilot program with GWLA's 33 members, focused on eBook interlibrary loans (ILL). This is the first major collaboration of its kind between academic libraries and a major publisher. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme BMJ appoints Jay Lippincott as the company's non-executive chairman BMJ has announced the appointment of Jay Lippincott as the company's non-executive chairman. He succeeds Michael Chamberlain, who is standing down after nearly ten years as chairman, during which time the company has more than doubled in size, and expanded globally. Lippincott has been a non-executive director of BMJ since January 2012, and consulted to the business, particularly on international opportunities, since 2009. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OSA announces new editors-in-chief for Advances in Optics and Photonics and Optics Letters The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Govind Agrawal and Xi-Cheng Zhang have been named the new editors-in-chief of Advances in Optics and Photonics and Optics Letters, respectively. Agrawal, a professor of optics and physics at the University of Rochester, will serve as the second editor of Advances in Optics and Photonics since the journal's launch in 2009. Zhang, who is the director of the Rochester Institute of Optics and is the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester, will serve as Optics Letters' seventh editor. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NIMS, Japan and Switzerland-based Empa partner to expand opportunities for open access publishing in materials science The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) has announced a new collaboration with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) to expand the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). Both organisations have signed a new 5-year collaborative agreement for the editorial management of the journal. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Registration for OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting now open Library information provider OCLC Research has announced that registration is now open for the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, scheduled for June 10-12, 2014 in Amsterdam. Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, Libraries & Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station. The meeting will focus on supporting the academic research process. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL hosts MLIS Students in Leadership Symposium at ALA Midwinter Meeting The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) hosted its 10th Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science (MLIS) students participating in ARL diversity recruitment programs during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 23–26. The ARL Leadership Symposium curriculum focuses on topics related to the major strategic areas of ARL, as well as transitioning into, and building career networks in, research libraries and archives. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Swets Scholarship Competition: Entries are open to win a place at the 2014 UKSG Conference Information services provider Swets has announced that entries are open to win a full registration at the 2014 UKSG Conference and Exhibition – a prize worth over £800. The UKSG conference is an important annual gathering for all involved in the scholarly information industry. All entries need to be submitted by email with a brief CV to marketing@uk.swets.com by March 7, 2014. 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: Kent Anderson (Can Mega-journals Maintain Boundaries When They and Their Customers Align on "Publish or Perish"?); Casey Brienza (Paying twice or paying thrice? Open access publishing in a global system of scholarly knowledge production and consumption); Joseph Esposito (The Market for Social Sciences and Humanities Publications); and Pushkar (What Is An 'International' Peer Review Journal?). 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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