http://www.Knowledgespeak.com The daily intelligence resource for the STM Publishing industry en scope@scopeknowledge.com scope@scopeknowledge.com 60 http://www.knowledgespeak.com/images/logo.gif http://www.knowledgespeak.com The daily intelligence resource for the STM Publishing industry http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9632&pickUpBatch=1365#9632 BMJ Learning, the medical education division of BMJ Group, and The Open University Business School's (OUBS) Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD) have launched postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Leadership for healthcare professionals. The new courses have been developed following the recommendations of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review that require all NHS organisations to have formal leadership development plans in place. http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9632&pickUpBatch=1365#9632 http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9633&pickUpBatch=1365#9633 Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced the launch of the Reaxys PhD Prize for young chemists. The competition is for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the past 12 months. The prize will be awarded to the candidates that demonstrate excellence in methodology and approach in a peer-reviewed publication. http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9633&pickUpBatch=1365#9633 http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9634&pickUpBatch=1365#9634 STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell has announced that its Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs), the new publications launched in 2009, have picked up three of the most prestigious awards in scholarly publishing at the annual PROSE awards. The American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) named the WIREs as joint winner of this year's R.R. Hawkins Award, the association's top prize, established in 1976 to recognise outstanding scholarly works in all disciplines of the arts and sciences. http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9634&pickUpBatch=1365#9634 http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9635&pickUpBatch=1365#9635 Reference linking services provider CrossRef has announced that it has surpassed 40 million metadata records for scholarly content. Each of these records includes a CrossRef Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the content to be accessed by a permanent link on the Internet. http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9635&pickUpBatch=1365#9635 http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9636&pickUpBatch=1365#9636 Bibliographic information provider Bowker has announced the acquisition of BML (Book Marketing) from Publishing News Ltd. BML is a provider of market research on the UK book market and is best known for its Books & Consumers survey and BookZone Research Panel. The company will become part of Bowker's Publishing Services division. http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9636&pickUpBatch=1365#9636 http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9637&pickUpBatch=1365#9637 Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing has announced that the Classical and Quantum Field Theory section in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical will change to Field Theory and String Theory. The new section will be under the leadership of Arkady Tseytlin, Imperial College, London. http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9637&pickUpBatch=1365#9637 http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9638&pickUpBatch=1365#9638 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Virginia Barbour (Science editorial on who takes responsibility for the research in a paper); Liz Wager (Stem cell scientists' criticisms of peer review); Kent Anderson (Rethinking Open Data Initiatives: It Turns Out Open Data Costs Money, Needs a Purpo se); Joe Wikert (Why Publishers Should Jump on the iPad Bandwagon); and Ann Michael (Where Is the Money in Custom Publishing? Your Answer Depends on How You Define It). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=9638&pickUpBatch=1365#9638